Word: wined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...readable verses on occasions calling for patriotic tears or laughter has been the job of Britain's Poets Laureate ever since Dryden in 1670 was given that official title by Charles II, with a salary of ?300, a butt of Canary wine. Though the emolument has varied with the years (Tennyson's pay was cut by three-quarters) most royal rhymesters have risen to the occasion. Outstanding exception was Wordsworth, who never produced a line to order because the spirit never moved him at the right moment. One of the conscientious was Lord Tennyson who, according to Carlyle...
...writes of a Madrid midnight spree with police of the present regime in a "black, swift, open Mercédès-Benz" which he thinks must once have "belonged to a millionaire." The driver "had nearly half a bottle [of] John Haig [whiskey], drinking it off like wine. . . .You know what this car is for-to shoot down Fascist snipers. . . . For half an hour we went on in this way, shouting or firing at lighted windows, racing through suspect streets. No one fired on us, thank God! Then they drove us home, running the car right onto the pavement...
BREAD AND WINE - Ignazio Silone - Harper...
...paper. Ignazio took to the mountains, was sheltered by the Abruzzi, peasants for three years. His brother was imprisoned, died from a beating. Exiled near Zurich, Ignazio Silone now writes books about his native land which no Duce-fearing Fascist could possibly approve. In Fontamara (1934), in Bread and Wine Exile Silone yearns as bitterly over his redeemed country as all patriotic Italians used to yearn over Italia irredenta. Fascists will not like Bread and Wine. Everyone else will...
...copy of the earliest known daguerreotype, a still life of a corner of Louis Daguerre's studio showing plaster Cupids heads, a bas relief and a large straw covered wine bottle, taken...