Word: wined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...France, own the famed Depeche de Toulouse, most potent French provincial newsorgan. Approvingly the Paris Press recalled that at the London Economic Conference, Delegate-Gourmet Albert Sarraut delivered a ringing speech in which he cried, "The world in this time of Depression is suffering from grave underconsumption of wine. . . . Ah wine: the gift from heaven of the blood of life which has been vouchsafed us in this vale of tears as compensation for our suffering! . . . Assuredly at such a time as this the world should drink more wine...
...President's long-snouted Renault cars around to fetch a successor to fallen Premier Edouard Daladier (TIME, Oct. 30). When the limousine went out at last it sped to the Navy Ministry. There a great gourmet, one of the most discriminating connoisseurs of food and wine in France, had for once missed the rite of luncheon, waiting anxiously at his desk for the expected summons of President Lebrun...
...morning, she breaks off with him. While he is dancing that night with the brunette at the street ball, the blonde's mother dies. He falls into the company of thieves, abandon's taxi-driving. But on his first job he finds that the cashier of the wine shop to be robbed is the blonde and he breaks up the burglary. For shielding him she loses her job and the two lose one another again. She meets the old drunk again and he buys her flowers, giving her 2,000 francs. She buys a flower cart...
Vacationing in Paris, Chesley W. Jurney, Sergeant-at-Arms of the U. S. Senate, remarked that he would like to visit the French Senate, said that he also wanted some information for U. S. friends organizing a wine agency. Helpful Leon Douarche of the French Government's wine bureau introduced him to the Senate Wine Commission, several Senators from the wine regions. Next morning Paris newspapers front-paged Sergeant-at-Arms Jurney as the "Secretaire-General of the American Senate, who has been charged by his Government to establish an agency for the importation of French wines, which will...
...plant life glimmer deceptively gold and crimson in the sun, as with a vernal life and freshness. The tang in the air will stimulate the will to live, when old men will feel young and explain "Indian summer." Then the Vagabond will take to Nature a bottle of sweet wine, and bread and cheese, and her, to make one more memory against the icy death of winter...