Word: wined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prior to 1919 practically all wine grapes in this country were purchased by a few wineries. With the advent of prohibition laws, winegrowers feared that their occupation was ruined. But in this they reckoned without the demand supplied by many thousands of amateur makers of "home brew" wines...
...Under what President was the White House first dry ?? Under Rutherford B. Hayes. Mrs. Hayes of the Lucy Webb Hayes Temperance Society, would not allow wine on the table...
...people who are not accustomed to it office is a very heady wine. Let Ramsay MacDonald wrap a wet towel round his brow and think...
...service - otherwise known as the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper-was conducted by radio for the first time in history. The service was broadcast from the West End Presbyterian Church, Manhattan, through WJZ, after a sermon by the British evangelist, G. Campbell Morgan. The elements, bread and wine, were blessed by the pastor, Edwin Keigwin.† The invisible audience did not partake until all had been served, so that all present in the church might partake simultaneously with those who served themselves bread and wine at home. While the elements were passed, the organ was audibly played. Grape...
...romance out of travel. And if predictions proved correct so that through a common tongue all nations of the world arrived at mutual understanding and peace the entire company of admirals and generals, armies, and militant statesmen would be lost for ever from a materialistic age thirsting for the wine of chivalry and pining for the fanfare of battle...