Word: wined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Disqualified. In San Francisco, after reeling into a bank and demanding some money while hammering on the teller's counter with a wine bottle, James R. Shaw, 51, was released by cops, who reckoned that he was much too drunk to be trying a serious holdup...
...treatment of the Olympians. Whether or not Graves's Iliad will endure as a satire, it is certainly the most charming translation in English since Pope's, and may also be the best. At the end of his preface, Graves promises to pour a libation of red wine "to Homer's shade, imploring pardon for the many small liberties I have taken." It seems likely that he will get his pardon from Homer, and also, as he forsees, a squall of protest from Homer's loyal grammarians...
...survived the struggle between Catholicism and the Reformation (Martin Luther had a memorable disputation there with Johann Eck in 1519). By the 18th century it was sternly Protestant in name and happily tolerant in fact. Student Johann Wolfgang Goethe spent much of his time impressing girls in local wine cellars, called the place "Little Paris." "It was a delightfully individualistic school," recalls a West German professor who studied there in the early 1930s, when it boasted many a towering scholar. "We studied hard. We enjoyed Leipzig and its charms-the wonderful Gewandhaus orchestra, the Friday night Bach concerts...
...money in print, is effectively sarcastic about such subjects as the boredom of suburban marriages. He is perhaps at his best writing about bars, which he does with all the poignancy of Dickens describing Christmas dinner at the Cratch-its'. But when Price's comeuppance arrives-wine, women and the SEC have made him a pauper-the reader finds it hard to believe that the man is truly shattered. This may be because an ex-wife gallantly bails him out with a $1,000,000 gift. At book's end, Craig broods, in italics: "How very rich...
Like bottled wine, and hailed...