Word: wined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coast-European conference, switched certain rates to the dollar. At week-end only one country could be said to be enthusiastically following the pound: President Carmona of Portugal took public note that the Portuguese escudo is pegged to sterling, recalled how lucrative are Portugal's sales (of Port wine, etc.) to Britain, made clear that the escudo will cling to the pound. This worried Spaniards. They sell to Britons sherry, etc. Anxiously Madrid foresaw that Portugal, by letting her escudo slide with sterling, will be able to offer drink, etc. to thirsty Britons cheaper than Spain, whose peseta...
...slowly nearer to a bullion treasure of $5,000,000 sunk off the west coast of France in the strong room of the foundered British liner Egypt (TIME, Sept. 8, 1930 et seq.). Last week with the treasure almost grasped, the Italian diver ship Artiglio II ran out of wine & spaghetti, promptly put back to the harbor of Brest. There, while she took on cases of spaghetti and 600 litres of the scorching red wine that Italian seamen like, her divers talked, showed a splendid shilling...
...Egypt was a Peninsular & Orient liner). ¶ Rusty tube of a onetime shaving stick. ¶ Portion of an English Bible. "The rest of this Bible," conjectured the diver who sent the mud up, "had been gnawed away, probably by rats before the Egypt sank." Soon primed last week with wine, spaghetti and fresh bombs, Artiglio II resumed from Brest her quest...
...Governor Long were more popular in Texas than its own Governor, who was expected to veto the Long plan if it were passed (TIME, Sept. 21). Then Governor Long went too far in his exhortations. He declared the Texas Legislature was being swayed by paid lobbyists, "blandished with wine, women and money, bought like a sack of corn, paid off like a slot machine...
Shattuck is a name to be dreaded by bandits and thieves. In April 1922 four cutthroats entered the Manhattan home of Mr. & Mrs Albert R. Shattuck, robbed them, locked them with eight servants in the wine cellar. With a pocket knife and a dime the prisoners worked their way out, close to death from suffocation. Mr. Shattuck vowed to capture the criminals. In 1924 the last one was captured, was sentenced to 45 to 65 years in Sing Sing. Mr. Shattuck died in 1925, avenged.* The name Shattuck again made news last week when Mary Strong Shattuck, widow of Albert...