Word: wined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ottawa of the '20s. The picturesque Bonnard family, headed by a kind, understanding papa (Charles Boyer) and strait-laced maman (Marsha Hunt), includes lovable, lecherous old grand-père (Marcel Dalio), who chases after widows, Uncle Louis (Kurt Kasznar), who drinks vast quantities of white wine from a water cooler, and Uncle Desmonde (Louis Jourdan), a traveling salesman who collects ladies' garters...
Bare Facts. In San Diego, the sheriff's arrest sheet on Ruby Idona Trammell read: face, flushed; gait, staggering; speech, garbled; breath, smelled of wine; eyes, bloodshot; coordination, poor; clothing, none...
...Borotra, onetime (1927 through 1932) tennis champion of France, told the congress that a glass of vin ordinaire with meals is just what the doctor should order. "You can't change people's habits," Borotra concluded. "We can't ask [the French] to give up the wine they love so much...
...Anti-Alcoholism Superhuman? "A sinister plot engineered by the wine industry," frothed Briton Wilfred Winterton. Over fruit juice at a nearby cafe the Drys held a council of war, resolved to censure Borotra's scandalous remarks. But the Half-Wets fought back. "They want to prevent us from drinking, smoking, even making love," snorted Andre Mignot, secretary-general of France's National Defense Committee Against Alcoholism. "We're French. You can't be an abstainer in France unless you're a hero or a saint...
...Also bequeathed to Johns Hopkins: Lawyer Shriver's wine cellar (404 gallons, including 235 bottles of Scotch, 165 of champagne, 15 of pure alcohol, and one of Howard County applejack). Because of the difficulty of figuring out what the tax should be, the whole lot was destroyed by the Federal Alcohol Tax Unit...