Word: wined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grand old customs that have departed, but there are few which bring more sickness to the heart than the passing of Mead. Life today has become an eternal procession of gin bottles and whiskey sours. The decanter has been swept from the side board and the flagon from the wine closet. Men no longer love the good things, they follow after the bitter...
...upon Olympus long years ago; if it is good enough for them it is good enough for Harvard. In the far off days when Romans were like brothers Mead ran like water. Pliny has passed on to us the doubtful praise that "it had all the bad qualities of wine and none of the good"; but the Vagabond has always believed this an error in translation. And in Biblical times there were the laws of the Medes and Persians...
...Domenico Di Luglio, 65, seemed to cast an evil eye on Woonsocket Loan & Discount Co. as he strode up and down in front of it for the better part of an hour. Banker Di Luglio, a powerful man who eats more than his doctor advises, likes the red wine too, had just that morning resigned as president of $500,000-in-resources Dante State Bank, giving the position...
According to him: "Whiskey stimulates the flow of gastric juices, it takes the edge off mental worries; it is a panacea which, if used in moderation, the human race cannot well get on without. It is far more efficacious than wine or beer; and, what's more, there's no use talking about wine or beer as far as this country is concerned. The Anglo-Saxon race is not a wine-drinking race and never will be. Legalize wine and beer and you will have a nation of staggering dyspeptics, all afflicted with cirrhosis of the liver. Legalize...
Last week an enterprising reporter for the New York Evening Post scoured the lists of unclaimed deposits in an effort to find news. He discovered that a Down & Out Club of Brooklyn has made no effort to claim its bank deposit for 22 years. He found a wine & liquor company that has not claimed its money since the year before Prohibition went into effect. And in the Union Dime Savings Bank, Manhattan, list he found: Laurette Taylor, $590, deposited...