Word: wined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Night of the farewell cruise dinner, Capt. Willmott was not there to play host. Day before, complaining of a stomach ache, he had retired to his cabin. In the dining saloon paper hats bobbed merrily, poppers crackled amid the small extravagances of last-night wine. But Capt. Willmott lay dead, half in, half out of his cabin bath tub, dead, said the ship's doctor, of "acute indigestion and heart attack...
...fervor he was preaching to 2,500 people who crammed old Jarvis Street Baptist Church, and to 5,000 more in overflow meetings. Dr. Shields lashed out at the "liquor traffic," flayed the Premier of Ontario, kinetic young Mitchell F. Hepburn, who took office last July when beer and wine became legal after 18 years of Prohibition. Cried Dr. Shields: "We need to rally our forces. . . . The preachers will have to get into overalls and go to work. I propose to do it. ... I am not afraid of the Premier of Ontario...
...blissful German wine country no spot is more romantically gemutlich than Coblenz, where the smooth Moselle slips into the turgid Rhine and the wines of both rivers are at their best, plentiful and cheap. To this perfect setting for a mid-summer picnic, the Ministry of Propaganda brought last week half a million happy Teutons among whom strutted as guests of honor 150,000 Saarlander, nearly a quarter of the population of the Saar...
...Jacob M. Kaplan, managed Hearn's capital, and a store executive named Leonard Ginsberg looked after the merchandise, President Levin started a series of shrewdly aggressive promotion campaigns. In two years business had picked up enough to keep 1,000 clerks busy. Last week President Levin opened his enlarged wine & liquor store, said to be the biggest in Manhattan...
...with two hungry Great Danes which sniff contemptuously around Director DeMille's lavish furnishings. With Antony, Cleopatra's technique is less subtle than with Caesar. She inveigles him aboard what the newspaper advertisements of this picture titillatingly refer to as her LOVE BARGE, gives him fancy hors d'oeuvres, wine in silver cups and clamshells full of pearls, served by classic chorus girls emerging from a fishing net as naked as Censor Joseph Breen will allow. During dinner, there is entertainment, with dancers dressed up like leopards and a premiere danseuse performing on the head and shoulders of a bull...