Word: wined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cast. But Director John Francis Dillon paid little attention to dialog and treated the central situation-a lady who, captured by an invading army, is asked to pay a painful price to save her husband's life-with inexcusable pomposity. Typical shot: the villainous Austrian colonel overcome by wine at a critical moment...
...thing is certain. Athletic morale has ebbed painfully. The Campus as a whole cannot depart on Friday for a week-end of wine, women and hey-hey without returning to read between the lines of Monday's athletic accounts that they also serve who only, stay in Princeton. The Daily Princetonian...
...Germany last week the gesticulating mobsmen were wrought up over a new phylloxera paradox. They were all peasants who have planted a particularly coarse American vine which flourishes on German soil almost without care. Growing like a weed, it yields mass production quantities of a crude, strong wine which can be sold to workmen's taverns at a big profit per acre. Abounding in strength, the American vine carries without harm to itself a phylloxera louse which is now spreading with deadly results to the laboriously tended German vines of neighboring estates in the Rkeinpfalz...
...Taken aboard at Friedrichshafen: one ton of victuals, including 6,000 eggs, 200 Ibs. bread, 1 20 bottles wine, 1,500 Ibs. ice. † Waiting to embark at Seville was Mrs. Mary Pierce of Manhattan, who was on the Graf last year when motor trouble prevented the crossing...
...Nonetheless, the visitors, including 1,000 from the U. S., swarmed over the countryside to see the sights. Silently vexed were Moslems when the visitors trooped through nearby Qairw?n, a Moslem pilgrimage centre almost as sacred as Mecca and Medina, buying nicknacks and souvenirs. But Tunisian wine merchants, beer dispensers, restaurateurs and shopkeepers stayed open for business 24 hours...