Word: wined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Honor the Foreign Minister of Hungary, the peasants of Gyor county brought their finest gifts: flour, bread, wine and suckling pigs. They were proud that Laszlo Rajk, the second man to Matyas Rakosi in the Communist Party, should head the election lists in their district. Rajk thanked them with a simple speech, in calm and measured accents...
...Bordeaux University, 70 prominent French doctors gathered last week to discuss the effects of wine on the human body. Inevitably, the conclusions were favorable to wine. The experts, calling themselves the "Doctor Friends of French Wines," banded together in the early 1930s to blow away a whiff of prohibition sentiment which wafted over France...
...Wine," said he, "contains and carries to the human organism ... a complex of mineral materials (calcium salts, potassium, iron, sodium and many more), of organic materials (alcohols, sugar, glycerine, organic acids, tannin, ether, alde-hydes), of vitamins, and diverse mineral substances. Because of these different things wine, for a healthy man who makes habitual use of it, excites the appetite, stimulates the motor and secretive functions . . . and helps the whole digestion ... It favors general nutrition and the stability of a man's humor...
...Weissenbach, frankly partisan, denounced the aperitif or cocktail. Said he: "All drinks containing alcohol, even wine, taken before eating are poison." The proper dosage of wine to be taken with meals, he suggested, was about a pint a day for the intellectual worker, a quart for a factory worker, 1½ quarts for a man doing physical work out of doors...
...your plum puddings," which were sometimes regarded as "popish" puddings in Cromwell's 17th Century England. In Advent comes St. Nicholas' Day (Dec. 6)-the time for eating a spiced Dutch cookie called "Speculatius." St. Nicholas' Eve is the time for drinking "Bishop's Wine." (To a bottle of claret, add four inches of stick cinnamon, six cloves, simmer about five minutes and serve hot. "In the chill of the night vigil, it will make you feel like a bishop...