Word: wined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last Sunday and Monday the Jews held Passover preaching services in their synagogues (orthodox) or temples (reformed). After the services family groups celebrated the Passover feast ("seyder"), each in its own home. After an ordinary supper, a ritual is carried out during which four small cups of sacramental wine are drunk by each member of the family. A dish in the center of the table contains a piece of lamb, and, in some families, horseradish. The lamb is not eaten, but is a survival of the ancient and abandoned custom of blood sacrifice as it was first practiced in Egypt...
...discovered the true nature of fermentation as a life process and devised practical methods of preventing it in wine, milk, etc., by heat (pasteurization...
...exhibitor of a painting depicting Mr. Bryan and other prohibitionists interrupting the "marriage at Cana of Galilee"-where Christ turned water into wine-was held guilty in a Manhattan magistrate's court of an act which " openly outrages public decency." The decision was based upon a proposition which most lawyers regard as long ago abandoned-that Christianity is "part of the common law of the land." From this it was deduced that there was at least an outrage on public decency within the meaning of the law, because, to paraphrase the court's language, "it seriously offends...
Iceland in 1909 passed a law prohibiting alcoholic liquors. This was recently suspended for one year because Spain declined to buy the fish which is Iceland's chief export, unless that country would reciprocate by buying wine...
...Russia, a law was passed in 1914 prohibiting the sale of vodka. In 1916, restrictions were placed upon all liquor. A measure allowing the sale of wine was passed...