Word: wined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Andrew John Volstead, author of the National Prohibition Act, denied that there were any such loopholes in his law. But well known is the fact that the above-quoted exception was put into Mr. Volstead's act to permit the farmer, chief supporter of Prohibition, to make his wine and hard cider without Federal molestation. Recalled was the case of onetime Representative John Philip Hill of Maryland who publicly made high-powered wine in his home only to be acquitted in a test case by a Baltimore jury. In New York a court case was found where...
...carbolic acid would purify rather than pollute the Vistula. But housewives were unconvinced, for down the Czarna, down the Pilika, down the Vistula floated thousands of dead fish: pickled pike, acid burnt bream, carbolated carp. Polish soldiers, ever fearful of water as a beverage, demanded larger wine rations...
...Society, the Director of the Megntzu Wireless Station, all the municipal department heads and business leaders of the community. Politely they praised the swallow's nest soup, deviled shark's fin, boneless lacquered duck, and vintage eggs. Deeply they drank of the bandit's excellent rice wine...
Maine. Famed as a maker of wine from grape juice, Senator Arthur Robinson Gould has been extolling temperance, has decided not to risk himself again at the polls for renomination. Senator Gould's candidate: Congressman Wallace Humphrey White Jr. of Lewiston, co-author of the Dill-White Radio Law, of the Jones-White Shipping Law. Opposing Mr. White in the June primary will be insurgent one-time Governor Ralph Owen Brewster, victor in Maine's waterpower referendum last summer (TIME, Sept...
Last week were added to American & Foreign Power's roster seven more names, the most important being Mendoza, fourth largest city in Argentine. Mendoza, "Gateway to Chile," is the centre.of the famed Western Argentine wine district. Other new American & Foreign Power Co. customers: Mar del Plata, San Pedro. San Nicolas, Junin, Azul, San Luis, all in the Province of Buenos Aires, rich in cattle and crops...