Word: wined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...court astronomers? On this day in ancient China, some two millenniums before Christ, a monster was seen devouring the sun. While people rushed about madly and beat drums to scare off the celestial demon, Court Astronomers Hsi and Ho were found drunk. To punish them for being "sunk in wine and excess" instead of tending to business on a dire occasion, they had their heads...
...dentists had good cause to show their teeth in pride, for as an art, U. S. dentistry is the world's finest. From the days when Dentist Isaac Greenwood supplied grim-lipped George Washington with a set of wooden teeth (they splintered), a set of iron teeth (port wine rusted them), and a dressy set of bone teeth, U. S. dentists have come...
...Fish, vegetables, rice-the staples of Japanese diet-were crucially scarce. The rice shortage was beginning to affect the supply of sake (rice wine). Enough rice had been plundered from North China, already hard up because of severe floods, so that in Tientsin the price of a sack of rice-two months' supply for one person-had gone up from $12 (Chinese) to $100. Food riots broke out in Tientsin and Peking. In Tokyo, according to the Agriculture and Forestry Ministry, so many Japanese were eating the bean curd waste usually fed to cattle that cows were giving only...
...more frugal-minded societies provide music. They can get quite a good soprano for two or three guineas plus her dinner which she eats behind a screen or in the next room (because of the stories); but if she is old and ugly your diners moodily finger their wine glasses and murmur 'Hell,' and if she is young and charming they are continually popping behind the screen to see if she's got everything she wants. In either case it's all rather distracting and a speechmaker is well worth the little extra...
Chile's homely little President Pedro Aguirre Cerda is popularly known as Don Tinto because of the excellent red wine of the vineyards that made him rich...