Word: wined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...colony, its 3,000 soldiers, 150 white women and children. And with starvation, inevitably, has come disease: beriberi and scurvy. Still the officials in Djibouti have refused to yield, to admit the Free French doctors who are waiting just across the Ethiopian border with food, medicine and wine. Last week they again turned down an offer to evacuate civilians from Djibouti...
...greatest period, the late 16th and early 17th centuries, until they were so saturated with it that they could write and even speak Elizabethan English. And in a time when intellectual standards have been slackened, when every arrant sentimentalist can spring a new educational theory and the wine of learning is watered, the austerity of a Kittredge, his snorting contempt for low standards, has been a bracing sea-wind in a hot-house...
...sent) inspiration and how a perfect cast put it across are things we can't tell you and you'll just have to see it yourself. All we know is that a couple of half-cracked but very nice old maids serve a new drink (two jiggers of elderberry wine--"we made it ourselves," a teaspoon of arsenic, half-teaspoon of cyanide and just a pinch of strychnine is the recipe) with a kick that's decimating, and people roar at wholesale murder. If all murders were as funny as these, the human race would assassinate itself off the earth...
...That their agents in the U.S. charged to Lend-Lease accounts such items as food, wine and telephone bills (TIME, Sept...
Last week the story suddenly appeared in the Washington Times-Herald, which reprints correspondence from the Chicago Tribune. Under the byline of New Deal-hating Correspondent Walter Trohan was the story, ascribed only to "reliable Congressional circles," and headlined: "British Here Make Whoopee As U.S. Pays-$30,000 in Wine, Food Reported Charged To Lend-Lease Bill." The story had a fancy new touch: Trohan wrote that the British actually sang a song (to the tune of There'll Always Be An England) which ran: "There'll always be a dollar, as long as we are here." "Charge...