Word: wined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After V-E day, Chappuis rejoined the U.S. forces, but only after a memorable week's celebration in Asola. The liberated townspeople toasted the Americans with red wine and white. The night of the peace, all seats were removed from the local theater for a victory ball, and while two orchestras played onstage, Roberto danced until 6 a.m., first with Wally, then with Gina...
Another Man's Poison. In Evreux, France, Prisoner Pierre Hennocque, having failed at hanging himself, tried to stuff himself to death by swallowing two can openers, a poker broken into ten-pieces, five four-inch nails, an assortment of screws, nuts & bolts, some curtain rings and a shattered wine glass-failed again...
...women. There were calls for German men, too. "Brazilian girl, 27" and "Hungarian girl, 23, relatives in South America" were looking for husbands last week. The price: 500 marks down and 500 upon marriage. For an extra 100 marks, applicants could attend the "social evenings" to dance, sip red wine, cocktails and gaze at prospective partners...
Thirteen out of the 20 gold-medal table wines, furthermore, are sold under the name of the grape out of which they are made, as Cabernet rather than claret, Riesling rather than Rhine wine. Pinot rather than Chablis or Burgundy, Semillon rather than Sauterne. American wine names are beginning to make some real headway...
...16th Century, gambling dens and houses of assignation were flourishing. Some of them, "as in Mayfair today," were luxurious places that featured excellent free dinners. The fancy houses offered "refreshment of a special kind with a view to its effect-as stewed prunes . . . oyster pies; muscadine; raw eggs; wine with a sprig of bugloss." For those who could not afford the "stewed-prune" houses, there were "strolling damsels...