Word: wined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great historian and knew constitutional law. QUESTION: What effect did the absence of our men fighting overseas have on the enactment of the Volstead Act? ANSWER: "Well it took away 4,000,000 of our best drinkers and by that I mean men who took a little wine for their stomachs' sake...
...Wine she gave to us and kisses, friend to gladden our abode...
TABOO No. 5. No President shall ever look upon wine, although sometimes he may be compelled to wink...
...intermediate stages as the Literary Club of Samuel Johnson's time. And there has been likewise a great change in the nature of the subjects dwelt on, and in the atmosphere in which they are treated. In the days of Socrates, philosophy was distilled with the fumes of Hellenic wine, and the asperity of the argument was soothed by the strains of a girl flute player. Eros was discussed, according to Plato's Symposium, until the wee sma' hours, by which time, as usual, the steady-headed Socrates had drunk all of his comrades under the table, thereby winning...
Premier Poincare-described as a ."sweet-water-drinker who abstains . from French wine, much though he admires it"-descended precipitately. from the. water-wagon, while delivering a speech in the Chamber of Deputies...