Word: wined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation's wine stocks are also depleted. Last week the auction of a late Mayfair hostess' cellar brought these smacking prices: German white wines, $240 per dozen bottles; four bottles of Cointreau, $136, and seven of orange Curagao, $160; Chateau Pichon-Longueville claret, $26 a bottle. A solid Briton knows his after-dinner ports as well as he knows Royal Navy battleships. But in the auction last week, nameless brands of port brought $88 a dozen...
...year-old patient while still in his teens had learned to love a raw egg or two in a glass of wine, had lately lived on little else. His rate of consumption: one to four quarts of wine a day, two to six dozen eggs a week. To be certain of enough fresh eggs, he left his family a few years ago to start a chicken farm. The strange eczema-like rash, which had grown redder and flakier for five years, soon faded on hospital diet, but the patient was still sick with other ailments unconnected with egg white...
...jewelry and sterling ware, monuments and tombstones, passenger cars and boats. They needed merely 2.5% of 1941's phonographs and radios, 3.7% of washing machines and refrigerators. They would not suffer with a balanced 71.8% of food, yet "for morale" they should have 65% of beer & wine, 75.2% of tobacco...
...industry position; its prim officers never discuss anything not already in print. The company's practical downtown Manhattan offices are pervaded by a churchlike decorum-everyone looks solemn, all men politely remove their hats when a girl gets into an elevator. Even at the annual Christmas parties no wine, liquor or horseplay is tolerated...
...while all this may happen, the "big fellows" may also destroy competition, as has been the case in many another industrial merger. Moreover, distilling hard liquor and producing wine have almost nothing in common; hence distillers have for the present nothing to add to vineyard technique. This is especially true in the case of high-grade wines, where small discriminating wineries such as California's Paul Masson Winery and Wente Bros, have labored hard to collect an educated clientele. Best hope is that despite the invasion of big-time money the small fellow will still compete in producing both...