Word: wined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...painting of Mrs. Coolidge by Howard Chandler Christy, showing the first lady of the land in a wine-red velvet gown, with a white collie at her side, was presented Mrs. Coolidge by 800 members of the Pi Beta Phi Sorority, of which she is a member. The portrait was unveiled in the East Room of the White House...
Concerning Chemistry: "We have been repeating the story in the pulpit of the Good Samaritan and telling of his use of oil and wine for the wounded man, of his sympathetic heart and skill. The fact is that in these days of preventive medicine, of more scientific diagnosis, and of the treatment of tens of thousands of patients in our hospitals, the leaders among the Good Samaritans are our men of science, such as Pasteur, Lister and Osler...
...alarmed and Scottish whisper: "Oh tell me, Shaw. Ha' ye eaten that, or are ye going to?"; and G. K. Chesterton, sitting at a table in Paddington Station "in a black sombrero and an enormous cloak, a cup of tea in one hand and a glass of port wine in the other, and looking, even in those utterly English surroundings, like a Dutch burgomaster just released from Rembrandt's studio after a long sitting...
...Mellen, Oxford's pink-faced American stroke, swallowed his last glass of daily training port-wine for the season. But the Cambridge port was better and the Cambridge men (classically known as "Cantabs") won the big race on the Thames...
...business his funnybone seems constantly elbowing out the dramatic elements. Instead of suggesting the ironhanded vulgarian of a millionaire, whose god is business, De Feraudy reminds one of Mr. Jiggs in the comic supplement series, Bringing Up Father. In an intense scene he puts his finger on a rocking wine bottle for a laugh. He is very expert in putting his finger on any laugh...