Word: wined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. (Etienne) Alexandre Millerand, 84, onetime President of France (1920-24) ; in Versailles. Son of a wine merchant active in the Commune of '48, he made a reputation as a defender of labor, became the first Socialist Cabinet member...
...Southern Italians used to despise northerners as "mangioni di polenta" (eaters of polenta, a staple made of corn meal flour). Now southerners eat polenta instead of bread. Good polenta is so thick it is cut with a string. Today's polenta is so thin it can be poured. Wine can still be had, but it is not plentiful...
...Wine and Women...
...fantastic patient's condition ran contrary to this theory. Even when the hospital restored his egg and wine diet, in an effort to bring his rash into full flower again, his cancer progressed. One possible explanation: perhaps the bacteria of his urinary tract infection were making biotin, sending enough into his blood to cancel stupendous quantities of avidin and feed the cancer besides...
...Allen's feudal dream of a self-sustaining family unit. With his wife Ann and three children (Marcia, 13; Mary Ann, ii; Richard, 6) he built on Maryland's Eastern Shore "one of the most complete family plants in the world," making bread from his own wheat, wine from his own grapes. Cows, hens and the waters of an inlet from Chesapeake Bay supply the Aliens with milk, eggs, fish and crabs...