Word: wined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other survivor, Katherine Schaub of Newark, reacted to her death sentence as did the men of Jerusalem who, when their city was in danger about 712 B. C., made merry, slew oxen, killed sheep, ate flesh, drank wine, shouted: "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die!" (Isaiah 22: 10-13.) Miss Schaub took her $10,000 cash and bought two motor cars. She amused herself at mountain resorts and hotels. She wrote a book, Gambling With Radium, and when her publishers advised her to improve its literary style, she enrolled as a correspondence pupil at Columbia University...
Last week came the last meeting of the Last Man Club. At the head of a table ringed with 33 crepe-decked chairs stood Charles Lockwood, 87, of Chamberlain. S. Dak. Tears ran down his wrinkled cheeks as he opened the bottle of wine. ''After our experiences in that war . . . it seemed funny to us." he said. "But now (hat I am last I see no humor in it." He filled his glass, held it aloft and recited as the Club had specified long ago: The camp fire smoulders-ashes jail; The clouds are black athwart...
Back in Kreuznach the old Feldmar-schall rallied quickly, drank of Rhenish wine from a gargantuan flagon which Bismarck and Kaiser Wilhelm I drained between them on their return from the Franco-Prussian...
...Chicago, Edward M. Johnson, broker. War aviator, stayed home to care for his five-month-old daughter. He drank some beer, then wine, then alcohol-&-ice-water, heard the child crying, picked her up, staggered, fell on her, picked her up again, dropped her. She died (fractured skull...
...Clermont-Ferrand, France, and fancied a grotesque human resemblance. A cartoonist named O'Gallot was commissioned to make the pile of tires into a trademark. Soon along the highways of the world appeared the inflated figure of Bibendum, so called because he originally appeared holding a goblet of wine, and with the slogan Nunc est Bibendum ("The time has come to drink"). The blurbal application of the slogan was that Michelin tires "drank up" the shocks and bumps of travel...