Word: wined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although she has more or less given up the world of the New York theatre following her experience with New York policemen after the Little Flower closed her tragedy, "Wine, Women, and Song," Margie has acquired the New York habit of gum-chewing, and chows most gracefully while she talks...
...join him silently at those hours. He tapped signals on the walls to announce the opening and closing of services. On Sundays and saints' days he celebrated the Holy Communion. For the Host he kept back a piece of bread from the preceding evening meal, substituted water for wine. To fit the occasion he composed a new opening for the Prayer of Consecration: "O Thou, Who at the marriage feast in Cana of Galilee didst turn the water into wine. . . ." (On his voyage to England months later the Bishop told a Roman Catholic priest about this. The priest...
...Blood Like Wine." In their madness some of the Japanese armed themselves only with bayonets tied to sticks, but most of them had rifles and plenty of ammunition and pockets full of hand grenades. Some soldiers heard the attackers shouting: "Japanese boys kill American boys! Japanese drink blood like wine!" But for their wild, weird screams, the Japs might have killed many more Americans in their sleep. The Japs brought 40-ounce sake wine bottles with them...
...Mary, 11, lost her mother, and her older sister got sick. Mary had to manage her younger brother, and cook. Her father did not like her cooking and beat her. Mary's solace was the wine which all the children had at each meal. "She wished for death, and, feeling she might achieve this by excessive drinking, drank more than a tumblerful of wine every night. . . ." She wound up in the hospital, sick and stuporous after drinking a pint of wine. After her sister got well and her father hired a housekeeper, Mary's thirst disappeared. In fact...
...ration is about three and a half ounces a week a person (compared to eight ounces in Britain). For five precious coupons, a Frenchman supping at a restaurant is lucky to get watery soup, a dab of meat, an inch-square wafer of cheese. The French wine allowance is six liters (about six quarts) monthly a person...