Word: wined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...always with pleasure and profound esteem that the Vagabond slowly turns the leaves of the world's most wonderful book and--even as sipping old wine--drinks and muses of the wisdom of years long ago. Especially is this true when the narrative is woven with colorful parables and wise sayings--and especially when the story is told by the inimitable Professor Lake...
...make mixed marriages. Marry girls of your own villages. Then when the great crisis in the life of the people comes you will not have family problems to solve as well. When this little meeting is over go back to your homes and enjoy a glass of wine but do not drink up your prize money. Remember the old Roman proverb: 'He who drinks no wine is a lamb, he who drinks just enough is a lion but he who drinks too much...
...miracles narrated in the four Gospels, Mr. Carrington thinks some are coincidences (e. g., quieting the storm, the heavy catch of fish) while others are simply parables (e. g., feeding the multitude, finding the coin in the fish's mouth). Changing water to wine may have been mass hypnotism. Most of the others, especially the healing miracles, he considers to be demonstrations of Jesus Christ's extraordinary psychic power-but within the frame of Nature. Some of the disorders represented as blindness, dumbness, leprosy, demoniacal possession may have been hysterical in character and thus curable by powerful suggestion...
Sober Sweden, skilled in neutrality, last week analyzed the League's sanctions against Italy in a practical light. Finding that Sweden imports from Italy only fruit and wine, the Foreign Affairs Committee wholeheartedly agreed to restrict Italian imports. Exports to Italy, however, were different, including as they do cellulose, timber, iron, steel. Sagely the Committee tabled the subject of restricting Swedish exports to Italy...
...Tower and the mansions of the Yard, he has gathered riches such as the common eyes of pirates have never seen. It has been his pleasure once or twice a year to open up his treasure chest, as it were, and share his wares. His gold; his old wine; wisdom's jewels. Yes, the things of beauty his ever searching mind-eye has collected. With this introduction he will let the treasures suggest their own worth...