Word: wined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...staff, met again as guests of Generalissimo Stalin. They fed sumptuously on caviar, out-of-season cucumbers, fish salad, hot zakuski (hors d'oeuvres), consomme, fish, turkey, chicken, roast beef, suckling pig, ice cream, coffee and liqueurs. They drank some 20 toasts, in vodka, white and red wine, champagne. One toast, proposed by Stalin, was for an absent man: President Truman. After dinner, the guests saw The Stone Flower (TIME, Jan. 27), a gentle Russian fairytale film with only a faint overlay of class consciousness. (General Mark Clark commented that the beautiful sorceress in the picture had something...
...tradition of his predecessors, the Pontiff has not eaten a meal with anyone since his elevation. He has a preference for rice soup, small portions of spaghetti and white meat. He likes vegetables, especially spinach, of which he eats sizable quantities. He drinks a small glass of white wine (red wine on very cold days). After lunch he takes one cup of strong black coffee, then rests for exactly one hour. Meticulously punctual, he goes back to work when the little gold alarm clock warns him that the hour of rest...
...about the 164-foot dining hall. The dining association, managed by its members, reported the average weekly board cost as $3.95 at a time when the menu offered such choices as "Roast Ribs of Beef," and "Braised Pork Tenderloin, Robert Sauce." "Creme d'Menthe Punch" and "Jelly Roll Pudding, Wine Sance" were two items on the same menu that prompted Carrie Nation, axe-wielding prohibitionist, to make her notorious invasion of the Memorial Hall dining room. During the noon meal on November 14, 1902, she appeared in the gallery where visitors came to "watch the animals eat"--and was immediately...
Died. Dr. C. Louis Leipoldt, 66, South African poet, physician, surgeon and gourmet (he relished lion meat, and recommended that babies imbibe wine rather than milk*); of a heart attack; in Capetown...
...Leipoldt's bibbing babies, sturdy five-year-old Rodney Whitley, considered going on the wagon last week. The Natal Coast boy, who had been drinking for four years (he is allergic to milk), and last year pulled through a polio attack on a diluted wine diet, is tiring of the drink...