Word: wined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...WINE FROM THESE GRAPES-Edna St. Vincent Millay-Harper...
...sunny public square of Marino, a medieval town high in the Roman Hills, good-natured carabinieri in soaking wet uniforms last week kept a riotous crowd back from the public fountain. One by one they let villagers and visitors approach. One spout flowed rich red wine, the other white, and it was free for all but those hoggish enough to try to use buckets. It was the annual vintage festival, celebrated in Marino for over a thousand years...
...Chemists and agricultural experts bore them out. All over France, in the Champagne, Bordeaux and Burgundy districts, weather has been ideal for the vine this summer. There was little hail, and the drought that burned up wheat crops only made deep-rooted grapes the sweeter. Analyses of the green wine have already sent prices soaring, but production all over Europe will be huge. Bordeaux expects to produce 500,000,000 litres of 1934 compared with 337,000,000 litres of 1933. Champagne of 1934 will be not only infinitely better than that of 1933 but there will be millions more...
...Townsend Plan had not acquired the cachet of Big Names as did Technocracy in the sad autumn of 1932. No Frank Vanderlip had drunk wine with it. It lacked the White House prestige which Anna Eleanor Roosevelt last year bestowed on the somewhat similar plan of Florida's 71-year-old Mrs. Prestonia Mann Martin whose book Prohibiting Poverty, of which Mrs. Roosevelt ordered six copies, advocated that all essential work be done free by Commons aged 18 to 26, who would thereafter engage at will in capitalistic luxury industries as public-supported Capitals* (TIME, Oct. 23). Best that...
...other reporters, and most certainly of all you CRIMSON candidates, take note of the sleuth in New London and never let it be said that you have looked too much on wine of a Saturday night and were unable to concentrate on Sunday. The time when nothing happened in New England on Sunday is past. The New Deal has put seven days in the New England week. By TIME...