Word: wined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bess Truman once more gladdened the hearts of the temperance people by turning down a glass of wine, proffered by amateur waitress Congresswoman Jessie Sumner. (No prohibitionist, Mrs. T. just doesn't like the taste of the stuff.) Occasion: the monthly luncheon of her Spanish teacher's class. Mrs. Truman, who turned up in a hat to remember (see cut), was on a spot: no water was served with the meal, which was so spicily Iberian that Senator Homer Ferguson's wife Myrtle was moved to report: "Now I know where the flamethrowers come from...
...French C battle that faced him last Saturday afternoon. He didn't take the no-doz because he had insomnia anyway. He didn't eat, not wanting to draw blood from his brain to his digestive system. But to achieve the Gallic outlook he drank a bottle of Petri Wine...
Shanghai's municipal government, noted for its frequent banquets, promptly took the cue. It called a meeting of the local New Life Movement, adopted the slogan "Early to bed, early to rise," pledged tea parties instead of feasts, with no serving of wine or "offering of cigarets." For officials who clasp austerity to their bosoms, the Movement proposed a medal of honor and laudatory notice in the public prints...
Nice scenes and bits: the Brothers cramping more & more tables onto the already crowded dance-floor of a supper club; the extraction, from a de luxe wine bottle, of a cork so gigantic that it leaves no room for wine; Groucho's love scenes with the femme fatale, interrupted by innumerable moves from room to room, and as gruesomely encumbered (with roses, iced champagne and all the paraphernalia of sophisticated seduction) as an old-fashioned family picnic...
...Congressman he represents Manhattan's lone Republican stronghold, the 17th ("Silk Stocking") District. But his earnest Republicanism is as individual as his taste in cravats. Says he: "I could not . . . enjoy a damned good dinner and wine unless I were doing all in my power to get better housing for the people in the slums...