Word: wined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...students, there would be easy talk, and plenty of wine, after dinner in Q's "Q-bicle." Q scorned teetotalers (he once got through a church luncheon by spiking his lemonade with gin). Later, in his rooms, the talk would last into the night, though Q himself might begin to undress, popping in & out of his bedroom, now shoeless, now trouserless, until he was orating in his underwear...
...time the racers got to Lima (2,900 miles away), there were only 66 contestants left, and the Gálvez boys had won five of the first six legs. They had earned 58,000 pesos ($11,931) and fountain pens, radios, razors, beer, wine, shoes and hats, put up by local merchants and automobile clubs. Only one outsider, a veteran driver named Juan Fangio, managed to muscle in on their monopoly - and paid dearly for it. In a road duel with Oscar, Fangio's car overturned. Gálvez raced on, not stopping to help. (Fangio cracked...
...different. The boss's car takes you to work. You work in a warm, clean office, and when the day is done, the boss's car takes you to his luxurious apartment. There you eat steak, drink red wine, and, after brandy and coffee by the fire, you go to bed in a soft, clean bed in the boss's bedroom...
...Conservatoire: at entrance age (18), he was in the French army in World War I. He emerged from World War II France's most popular composer, partly because there was no political blemish on him. He holed up on his 17th Century Vouvray estate (where he also makes wine), refused to play for the Germans, and stalled them off on the production of a new ballet, Les Animaux Modèles, by telling them repeatedly: "Ah, it is not yet finished." Now finished, it is a Parisian favorite...
...WINE, WOMEN AND WORDS (295 pp.) -Billy Rose-Simon & Schuster ($3 cloth, $1 paper...