Word: wined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vests like Marat's and collars like Robespierre's." Also present were Authors Balzac and Stendhal, Composer Hector Berlioz. Occasion for this intellectual incursion was the first night of Poet Victor Hugo's romantic drama Hernani. His young supporters had come (lugging ham, sausage, garlic, wine) to shout for their youthful hero, to see him upset the classical traditions of the French theater and win Round One for the new Romantic Movement...
...talk" given by MacLeish to OWI field officers at Washington's swank Carlton Hotel, O'Donnell printed in full the $6-a-plate menu, smacked his lips over "a bar with Martini, Manhattan and Daiquiri cocktails, plus scotch highballs for a starter, a dry white wine with the fish, a sturdy burgundy with the meat and all topped off with coffee and liqueurs, cigars and cigarets." Afterwards a "visiting fireman of war information" remarked: "And now I'm supposed to go back home and tell them we all must sacrifice and reduce our standard of living...
...Ample proof that 1942's term of "wolf" for a determined satyr is not new. Wrote a visitor to White Sulphur in the 1830s: "Unless you be young and foolish, fond of noise and nonsense, frolic and fun, wine and wassail, sleepless nights and days of headache, avoid Wolf...
...four years), some changes in drinking habits are on the way. Both gin and blended whiskies will presently disappear. Straight whiskey alone will remain. A proposed $2-a-gallon Federal tax boost would end the sale of popular dollar-a-pint whiskies, forcing many to drink cheap beer and wine...
...cotton went to 50?. Old Man Town, in his $75 custom-made boots, his faded wash pants, his wide Stetson and his 50? work gloves, was a Cotton King. Mrs. Town decided that her daughters should become Delta Queens. Old Man Town's lawyer bought them "a wine-colored brick monstrosity" on Memphis' Speedway. The girls were enrolled in Miss May's Select School for Fashionable Young Ladies...