Word: wined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...affectionate, voluble, energetic, terrierlike man, Hans Zinsser had a strong fondness for wine, women, horses, books. Two years ago, returning from a junket to China, he noticed that the sun on ship board turned him not healthy brown but lemon yellow. He knew then that there was something serious the matter with his blood. Back in Boston, he consulted a colleague and friend, who told him, with "affectionate abstinence from any expression of sympathy," that he had leukemia. Looking out at the white sails on the Charles River, Zinsser realized that he was going to die. A great lover...
...Denver hangout was the Windsor Hotel, where he once turned loose a bushel of rats, closely followed by a pack of rat terriers. They swarmed from attic to wine cellar, leaving havoc in their wake. Ogilvy's best friend at the Windsor was its amiable, hard-boiled bartender, Harry Tammen, who in 1893, with a handsome, swaggering young gambler from Chicago, Frederick Gilmer Bonfils, bought the Denver Post...
...Lewes, Del., when Commodore John B. Wine of the Lewes Yacht Club fired the starting gun for a race, he winged a wild duck...
...railway carloads of fresh vegetables arrived from Holland every day but most of these were sent into the Ruhr industrial district to provide additional vitamins for nerve-racked workers harassed nightly by British raiders. Bibulous Berliners, nourishing a long thirst in anticipation of cracking the enormous stocks of wine and champagne captured in France, heard with disappointment that these stocks are being preserved intact for later conversion into foreign exchange-probably...
...Emperor Haile Selassie when he was in Alexandria last month on his way to rejoin his people. The officer took the black-fuzzed little Emperor to the former Italian Yacht Club to change into military regalia. This was accomplished in a lavatory, accompanied by a drink of confiscated Italian wine...