Word: wined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this fashionably exposed flesh clean, Capri's hostelers must still import fresh bath water by tankers from Naples. The hauling contract has proved to be a gold mine: a cubic meter of water costing 4 lire at Naples sells for 300 lire on Capri. The old adage that "wine is cheaper than water in Capri," is truer than ever...
...play at cricket in this Dress, till quite exhausted by excessive perspiration, and the Hip Bath daily; eat only a quarter of a pound of Butcher's Meat in 24 hours, no Suppers or Breakfast, only one Meal a day; drink no malt liquor, but a little Wine, and take Physic occasionally. By these means my Ribs display Skin of no great Thickness & my Clothes have been taken in nearly half a yard...
...bride. At an open-air altar, flanked by the mayors of nearby cities and other distinguished guests, the Bishop of Grahamstown tried to perform the Anglican marriage ceremony. But a gaggle of more than 70 camera-bearing whites crowded the honored guests off their chairs, knocked over the Communion wine, tore the altar backcloth, left empty Coca-Cola bottles on the altar-cloth. Above the altar, someone raised a huge billboard exhorting all present to smoke Commando cigarettes...
...Mitchell, Ind., Harold C. Feightner, executive director of the Indiana Brewers Association, agreed to give "the other side of the case" at a camp meeting of Methodist youth. Feightner traced the course of Biblical wine-bibbing from Noah to the marriage at Cana, summed up: "The builders of the Bible saw virtue in the cultivation of the vine and the moderate use of its product." His audience, totally abstaining from applause, preferred the other invited speakers: a basketball star, a social worker, a judge, and two members of Alcoholics Anonymous...
...type now nearly extinct, low church, bigoted, and opposed to every kind of enjoyment." Ecclesiastes was his Bible; when Penelope spoke to a stranger, her father rebuked her in his own didactic paraphrases, saying: "If thy daughter be shameless, keep her in straitly." He refused her a piano ("Wine and music will rejoice the heart, but the love of wisdom is above them both") and kept her from the village fair ("Who so taketh pleasure in wickedness shall be condemned...