Word: wined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week British agents found the one time wine salesman in the Hamburg apart ment of a 35 -year-old divorcee. Reporters first heard that he was lying abed, naked; later, that he had on pink and white pajamas. He asked his captors if they would see to the delivery of letters he had written to Montgomery, Eden and "Wincent" Churchill, professing that he had never wanted war between Germany and the western Allies. He was, he said, "on a mission for the FÜhrer...
...hear many cry when deplorable excesses happen, 'Would there were no wine!' Oh, folly! Oh, madness! It is the wine that causes this abuse? No. . . . If you say, 'Would there were no wine' because of the drunkards, then you must say, going on by degrees, 'Would there were no steel,' because of the murderers, 'Would there were no night,' because of the thieves, 'Would there were no light,' because of the informers and 'Would there were no women,' because of adultery...
...good measure there is a featured 6th-Century B.C. krater (wine bowl), decorated with alcoholic, carnal highjinks that are unmistakably Freudian...
After the Archbishop's blessing, fishermen and clergy went about the business of consuming 400 pounds of lobster, ten bushels of steamed clams, 1,000 pounds of boiled codfish and corresponding quantities of beer and wine...
...style on coffee, bacon & eggs, shuffled through the papers on his desk. Thirteen times a year, clad in the white silk robe of high priest, he officiated at major Shinto rites. His wartime frugality set an example to all. He had his underwear thriftily mended, cut imported cigarets and wine from the palace list...