Word: wined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Double & Redouble. Like a strong Maotai wine, the new bank notes flooded through China's body. But they only affected a quarter of the population of Free China. The 160 million peasants who had always lived without benefit of currency continued to barter what they had for what they could get. It was the 60 million workers, soldiers, clerks, officials, merchants and intellectuals who felt the impact of unbridled inflation...
...Quislingesque wine-merchant (Hume Cronyn) who from the first plays ball with the Germans is not just a sniveling traitor. The roots of his spirit are so atrophied that he is sincerely baffled by the loathing of his fellow-prisoners...
...Philippine Vice Presidency did not diminish Sergio Osmeña's popularity. He lived his quiet life, while dapper Manuel Quezon, quixotic spendthrift, lover of luxury, danced and entertained at Malacañan Palace and junketed about the world. At press receptions, Osmeña served wine, Quezon hard liquor. Osmeña, born with the Chinese hate for the Jap, held his tongue while Quezon was royally received in Japan. When they ran for re-election in 1941, Osmeña polled a higher vote than Quezon...
...Ritz-Carlton for friends she feared might be too busy for such things for the rest of 1943. She explained: "They're all war workers." Among them: diamond-studded Mrs. Byron Foy, Mrs. Muriel Vanderbilt Church Phelps, Consuelo Vanderbilt Smith Davis Warburton. Eaten: supreme of melon in port wine, boned squab with white grapes new peas in butter, hearts of endive and beet roots and fine herbs, floating heart ice cream with figs, petit fours, demitasse. It was meatless Tuesday...
...plan weekend parties will be happy to take your slow-movers off your hands. It's a good idea to sell no popular brands on the weekends. As a matter of fact, customers who ask for whiskey on weekends can very readily be switched to rum or wine...