Word: wined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exhibit of the Society of Independent Artists in Manhattan, appeared a canvas entitled, "The Marriage at Cana of Galilee". It represented the biblical incident of the changing of water into wine, but with the introduction of unmistakable likenesses of Mr. Volstead, Mr. Bryan and Mr. Anderson. Mr. Bryan poured the miraculously made wine onto the floor, and under the painting was the inscription: "Father, forgive them for they know not what they...
...universally true that an eighteenth century commentator on the customs of the fourteenth and fifteenth noted, "that those theatrical pieces called Miracles were their delight beyond all others". The Miracles were to them what the musical comedy and the "problem play" are today,--at once the food and wine of the theatre-going public...
...distances in terms of miles and feet and inches, and liquids in terms of pints and quarts and gallons--no one of which measurements bear any decimal relation to another. Even between these two countries the "gallon" does not mean the same for Americans use the "Queen Anne's Wine Gallon", being the equivalent of 4.5 litres, while Englishmen use the "Imperial Gallon" of 3.5 litres, and the Stotch and Canadians follow them...
...spoke of his belief in tones of satire and of tragedy--an impulse coloured by memory. Reading and experience had laid its hand heavily upon him. The coordination of his pen hand, and his brain knew no compromise. His was the utterance of impulses turned as of water into wine by memories and always uncensored. He will live beyond this generation to a better understanding by the next, because his was romance unbiased by the influence of Freud. "Give me back the image of my beautiful Goddess" as Andreyev says in "He Who Gets Slapped...
...answers as the famous John Hancock riddle. To the College Office, he is merely a bit of machinery in a complex system, like the time-clock of a business establishment. To the individual in the course, he represents the frailties of the human flesh, to be plied with the wine of excuse and entreaty until his will is bent to the individual's purpose. The storm of hard-luck stories and heart-appeals that daily besiege a monitor's ear would do credit to a Hollywood composition course. And it is the sternest of the monitorial clan that cannot...