Word: wined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Still glowing from his warm reception. Farmer Campbell described the Soviet President, Comrade Kalinin, as "a fine gentleman." doubtless unaware that "gentleman" is a fighting word among Reds. Gratefully he recalled "one of the finest dinners we had ever eaten, including several different kinds of wine. The other guests at the table were amazed that Mrs. Campbell and I did not drink and teased us a great deal about Prohibition in the United States. . . . Before the evening was over we had a typical Russian sleigh ride through the thick dark forests. Mrs. Kalinin took me with her, while the rest...
...days of many a Viennese orphan. For Sissy, his second operetta since the War, Kreisler wrote charming, familiar music. He used themes from his "Caprice Viennois" and from "Liebes-freud," violin pieces so fluent and lilting that longest-faced critics have not fussed at their lack of profundity. "Wine Is My Weakness" and "With Eyes Like Thine, 'Tis Sin to Weep" are two new pieces the Viennese relished. If Sissy visits the U. S., Kreisler will take out tunes he has borrowed from Apple Blossoms, the operetta which he wrote in collaboration with Composer Victor Jacobi 13 years...
...effect, amends only those parts of the Volstead Act which today limit the alcoholic content of "beer, lager beer, ale, porter" to ½%. Whiskey, gin, rum, wine and the like are still left legally taboo. Untouched are the scale of penalties for Prohibition violations. As large and complex as ever are the restrictions on industrial alcohol. H. R. 13,312, with many a change in definition, does nothing more than set up a complete legal exception for 3.2% beer from the 18th Amendment. To raise revenue it taxes the new beer $5 per bbl.?the brewers' chosen figure?thus...
Hearings over, the committee pondered its course. Representatives of California vintners wanted naturally fermented wine included in H. R. 13,312. Such a proposal the committee rejected (14-to-9) for two reasons: 1) the alcoholic content of wine cannot be precisely controlled as in beer; 2) inclusion of wine would reduce to an absurdity the committee's contention that what the bill authorized fell outside the 18th Amendment as non-intoxicants in fact. Finally the Ways & Means made liquor history by voting 17-to-7 to report the Collier Bill to the House with these conclusions...
...slender if Mrs. Peabody's latest movement is successful, will chip in and have a statue made of this twentieth century reformer. Brewers will, without thinking, curse Mrs. Peabody. They are a simple group if they do, for they can very easily change their occupation to that of the wine and whiskey manufacturers. As Mrs. Peabody pointed out, it was beer that caused most of the drunkenness, so it should not be difficult now to legalize wines and hard liquors...