Word: wined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Abbott Lawrence Lowell, worthy successor of Leverett,--men who filled the bowls of the ancients with new wine. Presented by the teachers of Arts and Sciences, June 13, 1933, in token of their affection...
...that Blessed Andrè Fournet be declared a saint. The Pope twice told all to pray for God's assistance, then declared the petition granted. Silver trumpets blew, all the bells of Rome rang loudly. By ancient ritual the Cardinals offered Pius XI loaves of bread, kegs of wine and water, cages of doves, pigeons, nightingales and other birds. The Holy Father, 76, appeared pale towards the end, but not otherwise affected by muggy heat and four and one-half hours of ceremonial during which many people fainted. At one point a madman jumped on a chair, began haranguing...
...tenor Henrico Ferraro dodges his ranting manageress, Non-Stop Nora, to strike an acquaintanceship with a garrulous and none too scrupulous stranger. When the stranger buys wine with his money, Ferraro does not object. When the stranger takes the liberty of inviting himself into the same hotel room, Ferraro remains tolerant. But when the stranger is mistaken for the tenor, Ferraro is delighted...
...sober worth of more than a hundred scientific papers he has written. He has been interested in chemistry since he was fourteen. At fifteen, while in the Roxbury School, he was giving shows for the neighborhood boys, billing himself as "Young Edison" and charging admission. He turned water into wine, made smells and explosions, and devoted the proceeds to buying new laboratory equipment. In 1915, after he had graduated from Harvard, a rubber company wanted him to be head of a research laboratory in Ohio. He visited their plant and then told them off. "I'm going to be married...
...wine, mighty wine...