Word: wined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...except Mussolini and the most famous living embodiment of the art of music, the little, white-haired 76-year-old maestro had for years been using the lever of his prestige to pry at the roots of Fascism. To most Italians, who rate music as important as food and wine and a good deal more important than politics, that lever was a powerful one. To music-loving Germans (who gave him a smashing reception as conductor of the Bayreuth Wagner Festival) it was only a shade less powerful...
...rations are the same as those of other war prisoners, and he likes them cooked as plainly as possible. He insists that an officer share his dishes to prove they are not poisoned. Water is all he drinks. "Wine or beer or whiskey clouds the judgment. My job was to estimate public opinion for the Führer. You need judgment for that." He does not smoke. "Tobacco ruins the palate and prevents you from smelling the countryside." When a guard seems dubious about complying with a demand, Hess shouts: "That is what I wish. Those are my orders...
Says Goodspeed: "What the modern reader most wants of the New Testament is to know what it means." The British Bible, he says, was written "for the plow-boys of England."-He thinks that modern readers want to know that "about the sixth hour" means "about noon," that "wine mingled with myrrh" means "drugged wine," that "fifty thousand pieces of silver" means...
Original Pontigny. In his Burgundian abbey, Historian-Critic Paul Desjardins, a Sevres normal-school professor, during 23 summers assembled groups of scholars, writers, artists, for decades (ten-day periods). They drank the local wine, walked by the local river, played intellectual games, reveled in organized chats on fixed topics led by experts. Old Pontigny stars: Andre Gide, Paul Valery, Roger Fry, Gaetano Salvemini...
...large groups the Navy avoids the problem by using chalices, which are made of metal, divided into two parts. One side holds wafers; the other side holds wine...