Word: wined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whatever the prospects of eventual union, in rationed Holland last week lean and shabby Dutch, once stout and well-dressed, were hoarding their 40 weekly cigarets, while across the border in Belgium men with money ate lobster, steaks, butter, and drank French wine. Many Dutch women still wore ski trousers and ski boots while their Brussels sisters chatted over their tea in chic comfort...
...Until last week, Quebec was the only province to permit public drinking of anything harder than beer and wine...
After Retreat. By far the boldest paintings in the show were the products of his Paris period: the days when Cézanne lived on the Left Bank, sat up late sipping red wine with a young writer named Émile Zola...
They build their confusing little tale about a sadistic gentleman employed in some unspecified but lucrative business, whose chief interests in life seem to be feeding competitors to a vicious dog locked up in his wine cellar, driving a car at 100 miles per hour by means of a rear-seat accelator, and beating his wife. Into his life steps a penniless ex-sailor given to hallucinations, who takes a job as chauffeur and promptly makes off to Cuba with his wife. Down in Havana some violent action takes place, killing off a considerable portion of the cast, including both...
...member of the Berlin Magistral recently stopping in for a Heissgetränk (hot brew) at an ancient, smoke-blackened wine cellar saw a sight that made him rub his eyes. Around a table sat a group of middle-aged men, some bemonocled, some with pince-nez, all with wide silk bands of green, white and gold across their chests. Before them stood an elaborate, gold-fringed banner with the same colors, and beside it lay a wooden mallet covered with faded signatures. Meeting here amid Berlin's ruins was a chapter of Saxo-Borussia, one of the most...