Word: wined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kipling wrote: ". . . There entered a native officer who had played for the Lushkar team. He could not, of course, eat with the alien . . ." His own choice; not that of his hosts. His religion would not have permitted him to eat the alien's food, drink his wine. Altering "alien" to "mess" clearly implies Kipling meant the native had been excluded, perhaps by racial prejudice...
...Regent Caligula (Jay Robinson) for the hand of Jean Simmons, a ward of the Emperor Tiberius. When he further annoys the evil Caligula by outbidding him for a particularly stiff-necked Greek slave (Victor Mature), Burton is exiled to Palestine, where he lolls decadently in the baths and drinks wine while his slave Mature becomes a convert to the new religion...
...California State Fair, Governor Earl Warren got fussed during the crowning of a wine queen, put the royal ring of grapes on upside down, apologized: "I'm about as handy as a cub bear when it comes to crowning queens...
...Family (Coward-McCann). Author Goudge has a highly developed bestseller touch, and her simple story of family life in England is just what her fans might have ordered. As far from the Goudge world as possible is the African world of First Novelist Amos Tutuola's The Palm-Wine Drinkard (Grove), a world of myth, legend and fantasy. The language is odd and flavorsome, as befits a book whose hero drinks 225 kegs of palm wine every...
...From the military campaigns of the Caesars, John Gardner, a Navy veteran studying pharmacy at the University of California, concluded that there may be germ-killing substances in ordinary red wine. Roman legionaries, who carried wine with them during invasions, had fewer casualties from intestinal infections than modern armies. Gardner has isolated a mild germ killer from wine, now hopes to concentrate it for practical...