Word: wined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thousands of cheering Britons. Both Kings were dressed in military uniforms and were seated in the first carriage. Queen Mary was, as usual, dressed severely, wore a silver-tissue brocade coat and the inevitable perching toque, and, as usual, she looked every inch a Queen. Queen Marie wore a wine-red fur-trimmed cloak and a large hat well down upon her head...
...spring's production. It will be open to all men who will be next year Sophomores, Juniors, or Seniors. Plans will be discussed and the requirements for the play outlined, so that all authors who wish may work on their manuscripts during the summer vacation. The author whose play wine the competition, which will be announced next winter, will be elected to the Hasty Pudding Club...
...endorse prohibition and have became a total abstainer. Is not the comparison between your good self and King Solomon irresistable? Aside from the Wisdom of both of you, many a time in his vigorous youth Solomon slaked his thirst with the flowing bowl, but in his old age claimed 'wine is a mocker...
Apparently as much wine is consumed in this country as ever. Prohibition laws have simply changed the outward forms by which wines are made. The tonnages of wines carried by leading railroads, for example, have shrunk rapidly toward zero. The Southern Pacific, which in 1917 carried 450,287 tons of wine, and in 1919 about 230,000 tons, in 1923 transported only 49,946 tons. So too the Santa Fe carried 167,535 tons in 1917, 94,181 in 1919 and 21,623 tons...
...tonnage of California wine grapes during recent years is also. interesting in this connection. In 1919, the tonnage of the crop was 400,000-valued at $20,000,000, or $5 a ton. Production then fell to 375,000 tons in 1920, and to 310,000 tons in 1921, while prices rose to $75 and $82 respectively. But at this point the "home brew" wine maker apparently got busy. In 1922 the crop jumped to 450,000 tons, and last year was 428,000 tons, despite a severe rail-dew. Meanwhile prices fell...