Word: wined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Contrary to some headlines, this was no mass sherry-sipping party at which girl students indulged in a miniature Roman orgy. About seventy Radcliffe alumni and friends were there, including some of Harvard's best known professors. For this group, twelve girl students were enlisted to serve wine. These students did not imbibe; their's but to stand and wait. A part of the Radcliffe Choral Society which entertained at dinner, however, did receive some of the "alcoholic depressant," as the preacher chose to term good sherry, although certainly not in such quantities as to outrage the memory...
...Where wine flag catches the sunset Sparse chimneys smoke in the cross light...
...apparent disposition to classify has lead S. N. Behrman to call his new play, "Wine of Choice," a comedy. Its only claim to that category is that it is not sublimely tragic. It is certainly not funny; its neatly turned phrases and condensed, polished dialogue are not calculated to make it that. Nor is it entertaining or satisfying; it confirms no one in his preconceptions. Rather is it irritating social comment with a few dramatic moments carelessly thrown...
...lend ye my name, and inspire ye to boot. And besides I'll instruct ye, like me, to intwine The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus' wine...
...Phillips had met the Tsar, an enthusiastic locomotive driver, on a trip to Bulgaria in 1932. After exchanging $31 worth of pleasantries, Tsar Boris rang off. Previous gifts that have passed between the Tsar and the Nebraska engineer include two miniature locomotives from Gus Phillips, 16 bottles of choice wine and a diamond stickpin from Tsar Boris...