Word: wined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Trumans have been guests at Mrs. McLean's before, but not the guests of honor. Mrs. McLean's parties are different now. She serves California wine, usually a clear soup, frequently skips the fish course. The Trumans like cards and music, so there will be bridge. Pianist Evelyn Tynor will play, and Tenor Lauritz Melchior will be there...
...Ella Alexander Boole, indefatigable world president of the W.C.T.U., got the idea that liberated Europeans are giving U.S. troops a Dionysiac welcome, deplored it: "Why, they're drinking wine. Wine! They're offering our boys jugs of wine. They could just as easily have given them fruit juices...
...things that count, the French are a very practical people. They watched with detached wonder when the U.S. Army laid a gasoline pipeline from the Normandy beachhead to Paris. Then an idea galvanized them into action: if gas can flow through a six-inch pipe, why not wine? Last week Frenchmen laid their own pipeline. Across the practically bridgeless Loire River it will bring wine from southern France to break a drought that has been desiccating Paris and northern France...
...growing list of "Chase Chorus Boys" is the eminent and spindly-legged Randy "Ghost" Phillips. Shades of Hollywood and Vine Appeared as the patrons of the Latin Quarter viewed the night beauty contest, and Phillips' frail physique. For dead old Harvard, Randolph came through, and received a bottle of wine for his efforts...
...Million Dollar Theater, went in. As he watched The Walking Dead, a Boris Karloff horror picture, the thought kept buzzing through his head: "I have killed a woman, and no one here knows about it." When the picture was over he walked into another bar and ordered wine. He watched a woman at the bar. After a while she smiled. Her name was Lillian Johnson...