Word: wined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prohibition in Norway always excepted beer and whiskey. And brandy could be bought on a doctor's certificate. During the past year the law was altered to permit importation of light wines under Government monopoly. This alteration was made because of threats by France, Spain and Portugal to render void all trade agreements with Norway. These countries had previously exported vast quantities of wine to Norway...
...again the mood of melancholy surges up-it is never very deep below the surface-and Fish draws three lovely veiled figures in black and silver for another wine-cup stanza, now of an elegiac turn...
After all, individualism, the marked absence of standardization, is the "note" of Harvard. Customs and "values" may change. The undergraduate may come to venerate a Phi Beta Kappa key as much as his father venerates his safe deposit or even his wine-cellar key. Mr. Lamont looks forward to the culminat hour when "a member of the Phi Beta "Kappa Society is more honored among "all men than a member of the victorious football eleven." On that day what a business the Boston department stores will be doing in ascension robes...
...births, deaths. "The scalpel of the experts," wrote Fabre, "has made us acquainted with his [the scorpion's] organic structure; but no observer . . . has thought of interviewing him, with any sort of persistence, on the subject of his private habits. Ripped up, after being steeped in spirits of wine, he is very well known; acting within the domain of his instincts, he is hardly known at all." That, in parvo, was Fabre's technique- "personal interviews" with his minute subjects. The Languedoeian scorpion (not the common black scorpion of Europe, which is harmless) is a grotesque, straw-colored...
...swooped down upon the camps to inspect the food of the poilus, who, according to Paris smalltalk, are not properly fed. M. Maginot found the quantity of food sufficient but the quality occasionally bad. He also found that some poilus were getting a beer ration when they preferred wine. The Minister of War ordered the change and added that he would from time to time "make unannounced inspections" of soldiers' barracks...