Word: wined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...twilight comes a glimpse, through the drawn shades, of the Bulfinch drawing rooms, and of the scrubbed and shining faces of the matrons, filled with the light of the Boston Transcript. Closed to the Boston, which is now Greater, is a world, a complete world, sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and -- sans End. Turn down an empty Glass! Or so we read in the magazines...
Last fortnight Hemingway, a few Cubans and the usual wicker demijohn of wine went swordfishing. In July and August the big marlins come down from...
...France. Italy and other European wheat consuming states some lowering of their tariffs and embargoes against wheat. Informally Italian representatives at the Conference said that Premier Mussolini had given them "every assurance of full co-operation with the great wheat producing states." The French delegation raised the issue of wine. With repeal of the 18th Amendment in sight, the U. S.. they declared, could make a great international gesture by agreeing to permit Frenchmen to trade their surplus of wine for part of the U. S. surplus of wheat...
...them, earned barely enough to eat. Years later Dickens, out of the bitterness of his own heart, wrote the horrors of child exploitation into his stories of Oliver Twist, undertaker's apprentice and thief, and of David Copperfield who toiled long'and dismally for a London wine merchant. All England was shocked and startled by Dickens' tut ionized propaganda. Resentment was quickly followed by reform. The U. S. had no great novelist to dramatize the curse of childhood.* But it did have Florence Kelley. Florence Kelley was born in Philadelphia in 1859, an Irish Quaker. Her father...
...since 1929, Mayor Porter won a recall election last year because his opposition consisted of a scattered field of nonentities. But many a Los Angeles citizen was itching to get rid of him because : 1) as a Dry, he had '"disgraced" his city by refusing to drink a wine toast to the U. S. President while junketing in France with other U. S. mayors two years ago (TIME, June 1, 1931); 2) he had snubbed Franklin D. Roosevelt when the Democratic presidential nominee was campaigning in Los Angeles last year (TIME, Oct. 3); 3) he had turned the police...