Word: wined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Investigating this strange change of heart, the U. S. State Department learned that the Army had smelled a Red rat: they did not like the radical sound of World Federation of Education Associations. Brazil's Government politely said that Rio de Janeiro would be glad to wine and dine the world's teachers but drew the line at a formal meeting...
Chiang was no mixture of revolutionary and saint like Dr. Sun Yatsen, who in 1911 had stirred the Chinese to overthrow the corrupt Manchu dynasty. He was just the son of a South China wine merchant, who had been trained in the Military Academy at Tokyo, and later became president of the Whampoa Military School in Canton. When Dr. Sun died in 1925, China was overrun by warlords. It took a hardheaded soldier like Chiang to command the loyalty of the Kuomintang. Hardheaded men in Chinese politics are not stubborn idealists -against odds they normally quit or sell...
...domination of the morning field. Although the Inquirer's, 370,000 circulation is a good deal larger than the Record's, the paper loses over $500,000 a year, has cost Publisher Annenberg an estimated $2,000,000 since he bought it from the estate of wine-bibbing, fun-loving James Elverson in 1936. Subexecutives have hung little red tags on the copy desk lamps reading "Please turn off when not in use," but Moe Annenberg remains munificent. He spends some $25,000 a week on promotion, recently had to be argued out of cutting the paper...
Twenty Japanese officials and their Chinese puppets sat down to a gala banquet last week at the Japanese Consulate General at Nanking in honor of Japanese Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Tomesaburo Shimizu. The banquet began with a toast in wine. It ended when all the guests suddenly went under the table from a little poison slipped into the wine by "Chinese enemies...
Latest of such stories is The Wings of the Morning, a 500-page fantasy by a 28-year-old Englishman who works for a London printing firm, flies a plane, likes good food and wine, fast horses and cars. His first published novel, The Wings of the Morning, tells of a medical genius who becomes equally famed as a best-selling satirist. When his young wife, a beautiful Communist, is killed in an accident, the doctor retires snarling to a cottage, makes friends with a philosopher-cop, gets mixed up in the strange suicide of an egomaniac artist, who personifies...