Word: wined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...torchlight parades, and except in Paris and the larger cities very little campaign oratory. The average provincial candidate moved into a corner cafe, sat down at the end of a long table with a wallet full of bills, and invited all hesitant voters to have a glass of wine at his expense while he, with gestures, explained how he expects to save France...
...Radical-Socialists were united in a "Front Populaire" under the leadership of lean Socialist Leon Blum, who some believe may be next Premier of France. A paradox himself, cultivated Socialist Blum is a teetotaler whose constituency is at Narbonne, in the Department of Aude, centre of the cheap red wine district where the vineyard workers are their own best customers. Fortunately for Socialist Blum's delicate digestion, his re-election was assured when French Royalists nearly severed his carotid artery nine weeks ago. Free wine flowed in Narbonne last week but Candidate Blum let voters drink alone...
...sight of his bronzed opponent from the Pyrenees that it took several handlers to push him into the ring. There was a quick and ugly knockout and variorum reports of what happened to Promoter Dickson, who was supposed to have been hit on the head with a wine bottle. He discharged his matchmaker, packed the house for his next fight by giving free tickets wholesale to Citroen mechanics. Thus began the Golden Age of French boxing...
...people visited Dickson's Jungle in the first eight nights, the authorities decided it made the animals nervous, stopped the show. Promoter Dickson finds London crowds the most tractable in Europe, Paris crowds the most excitable. In the Palais des Sports, to prevent a recurrence of the wine bottle incident, a net can be lowered around the arena to protect occupants from injury by spectators...
Undergraduates were served beer, made in the brewery which stood in the Yard near the present site of Hollis Hall. But only privileged bodies like the Board of Overseers rated the luxury of wine...