Word: wined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Elihu Thomson, 83, co-founder of General Electric Co., onetime (1920-22) acting president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology; after two months' illness; in Swampscott, Mass. A precocious British immigrant who built an electric friction generator out of a wine bottle before he entered high school, Elihu Thomson invented electric welding, the standard three-phase alternating current generator, the centrifugal cream separator, the common watt meter, the street arc lamp; built the first electric locomotive for Baltimore & Ohio Railroad...
...hall a great fire is blazing and spitting. Around it are seated a group of knights, with their swords still at their sides in a manner improper for a banquet. In their center, holding a silver goblet of wine in his hand is His Majesty, King Henry II of England. He is a rough, squarely-built man, with a red face attached to the rest of his body by a neck that resembles that of a bull. His eyes are large, and tonight a veritable fire seems to come from them. As he begins to speak, in a loud, rough...
...make use of alcohol or tobacco? A. I consider alcohol damaging to the health of individuals and to collective health. I am not against the moderate use of tobacco, but as far as I am concerned, I never drink hard liquor. I sometimes drink a little wine at official dinners, but since the World War I have never smoked...
...take tea or coffee or any stimulating drink? A. I do not take tea or coffee, but sometimes drink an infusion of linden leaves or tilleul. For those who labor physically the moderate use of wine is useful...
...Frankfurter Zeitung. Its alert editors are not only internationally minded, but are constantly unearthing for their readers amusing and instructive tidbits. Declared the Frankfurter Zeitung, copies of which arrived in Manhattan last week: "We like to think of Vienna as a dream city where lovers sip their wine in soulful reverie pondering only how to please each other. We are mistaken, for last year 35,000 Viennese filed suits for defamation of character because somebody or other had called them 'Trottel' [dumbbell]. . . . These temperamental explosions cost in lawyers' fees and fines 2,000,000 schillings...