Word: wined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...though the entire upper structure of the Alcázar had been pounded to jagged chunks. Never could even superbly trained West Pointers have thus held out had not much of the Toledo Fortress been hewn out of living rock and its enormous cellars kept fully stocked with food, wine and munitions by Commandant Moscardo...
...great banquet in the railroad station ($7.50 a plate for cantaloupe. Philadelphia pepper pot, fresh salmon. Virginia lamb, ice cream and California wine) was marred by the conspicuous presence of two rows of unoccupied tables. It was enlivened by Secretary Ickes' speech declaring that reducing electric rates was a high duty of government, by Floyd Carlisle's point that utilities, unlike railroads, banks, farmers and many others, had not had to call on the Government for financial aid in Depression...
...once had a drink with him perhaps. The hospitable American takes him to a party where he meets about thirty more H. A.'s. They find out where he is staying (if he has found out himself) and from then on it is just "madder music and stronger wine" until he is carried in a state of delirium tremens and general paralysis of the insane onto the returning boat. The man who does not get the best time of his life in a visit to America must either spend his visit on Ellis Island or go about as Andrew Volstead...
...most readers, Bligh's story ends after he had been placed in an open boat with 18 men, "150 lb. of bread, 16 pieces of pork, each weighing 2 lb., 6 quarts of rum, 6 bottles of wine ... 28 gallons of water" and set adrift. Actually his career was only beginning when he reached the island of Timor 41 days later. A popular hero on his return to London, after "a voyage of the most extraordinary nature that ever happened in the world," he sailed again to the South Seas, fought in the battle of Camperdown, was driven...
...intense hatred of all Germans and Italians. They won't let either German or Italian warships into Barcelona inner harbor, whereas any British or French vessel can go alongside the docks." Two days later California Dancer Florence Miller of a Canadian vaudeville troupe known as The Tony Wine Com-pany which has been playing Catalonia, got out of Barcelona after all members of the company had been "conscripted" by the radical militia and put to work giving five shows a day for militiamen with the threat that anyone who refused to dance, sing or wisecrack would be considered...