Word: wined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...died last week for Leftist Spain with their "home addresses not listed": Jean Bronstein, Dave Walbo and Ray Peters. Trooper Larry O'Toole of Jersey City said he was wounded not in action but emerging from a store, his tunic stuffed with tomatoes and a bottle of wine. Boasted Manhattan Negro Walter Garland, commander of a Leftist machine gun company: "We took three towns in a row without stopping to rest, fighting like demons...
Plaintiff was attractive Mrs. Germaine Torrence, 28, whose husband Herbert, 36, a mail carrier tired from lugging Christmas mails, paused at a tavern during the holidays to have a few beers. Subsequently he stopped at a package store for wine and whiskey and then went home and gave his wife such a beating that she was "sick, sore, lame and disordered and did suffer a fractured nose." Mrs. Torrence is now back with her husband, but last week she was asking $20,000 for her Yule beating from the landlords and proprietors of both the grogshop and package store. Prosecuting...
...Representative Lister Hill, chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee, Secretary of War Woodring last week dispatched a chit. He recommended repeal of a law passed in 1901 which forbids the sale of beer, wine or intoxicating beverages on Army premises. This, Mr. Woodring explained, was not a Wet-Dry issue, but a question of discrimination against the Army. Sailors and marines can now buy beer at their canteens ashore. Said he: "The repeal of this law restores the Army to parity with the Navy...
...1890s reporter Ralph Delahaye Paine, famed young Yale rowing man breaking into journalism on the Philadelphia Press, was inspired to perpetrate a monumental hoax. With rich detail he told readers about one Pierre Grantaire who made a good living by raising and selling spiders for the spurious cobwebbing of wine bottles. After visiting the "spider farm" on Lancaster Pike outside Philadelphia, Reporter Paine said that 4,000 spiders of the species Nephila plumipes (who spun the "finest webs") were busy working for M. Grantaire, that he shipped them to customers in "little paper boxes, so many dozen in each crate...
...Drink plenty of wine from childhood on, spend a week with a barrel of oysters and a turkey, drink a bottle of champagne for luncheon, smoke all you want. My other rule for a long life is to kill my doctor...