Word: wined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Fess of Ohio made public a letter to Governor Smith of New York, criticising the memorial recently sent by him at the direction of the state legislature to Congress favoring "wine and beer." Senator Fess believes that the time for compromising is past, that enforcement is the only issue in the prohibition question now, and that the American people are overwhelmingly in favor of the law as it stands...
...Artists" in New York will not comfort him. Its two stellar attractions would hold, in foreign eyes, the place of scorn that Mr. Studge, the Medium, held in Browning's. In one of these "masterpieces", Bryan, Anderson, and Volstead are seen protesting against the miracle of turning water into wine, with the illuminating title underneath: "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." And a neighboring exhibit represents a miracle in itself. For here are heads on John the Baptist and of Christ, sawed up from Mrs. Janet Singh's dining-room floor. There they were imprinted...
Doctor Charles W. Eliot, President Emeritus of Harvard: " In an address in Boston I said that I used to drink wine and beer, but since prohibition I have been a teetotaler...
Arthur Brisbane (Hearst editor) made the following comment on George Washington: "In three months his beer bill was $170, French red wine $105, porter $45. He spent only five shillings for liquors-wise Father of His Country. If everybody had done the same ever since, there would be no drink problem in the United States...
...French professor, Charles Henri, has discovered a method of "aging" wine in a few minutes. In a demonstration before the Academy of Sciences, he took a bottle of new wine, and by placing it for a few minutes in an electrostatic field of from 60,000 to 100,000 volts, changed it in a short time so that in all respects -strength, color, bouquet-it could not be detected from old wine. Steps have been taken to commercialize the new invention...