Word: wined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first-foot it for other Lancastrians who have the misfortune to be blonde (an unlucky omen for anyone who has to first-foot for a household). This means that each time she arrives at a home bearing her good omens there will be a glass of wine and a slice of bun loaf awaiting...
...championship cockfight some young bloods showed up to serenade the Señoritas Velandia. Flushed with tender sentiment and wine, they arrived at Casimiro's home with a band. Father Velandia beamed. But it went on & on, without regard for the fighting cocks roosting in a nearby tree. Casimiro grew nervous, then irritated, then thoroughly alarmed over the disturbed rest of his birds. "Stop the music!" he finally ordered. The serenaders refused; they had hired the musicians for the whole evening...
Miss Parsons, who visited friends in Prague, felt that Christmas traditions in the United States and in Czechoslovakia are essentially the same except that the Czech people go in for more caroling and more eating. "For Christmas dinner we had turkey, fish, cabbage, candy, cakes, wine, and more cakes, followed by a series of afternoon tea parties and more cakes,' 'she said...
...Lewi has a pet explanation for his energetic longevity: "I have never lost any energy resisting temptation ... I have been a bit selfish all my life." He likes a Scotch highball before dinner, a glass of wine or beer before bed, and smokes 12 to 14 cigars a day. He plays both poker and bridge, often until 1 a.m., but he almost never wins, he explains, because he is a Pechvogel (unlucky person). His dream for the future is a hospital for foot sufferers. Says he: "It's funny. There are so many wealthy, gouty old men. None...
...hours on a streetcar with wine, women, an assorted noises broke the monotony of a late fall weekend for 25 Eliot House men Saturday evening...