Word: wined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This new public airing of the family's wine-stained linen was apparently prompted by reports in the Hearst papers that Godfrey was in a firing mood because of intramural romancing among members of his cast. For this charge Godfrey had a grandly Godfreudian reply: "There is no girl on this show whose job is in jeopardy . . . I don't give a hoot who they're in love with, who they marry, who they divorce, who they have babies with . . . I just hope that if they do, it's with their husbands...
...Maurice, 12, suffered from a stammer and tic. After drinking nothing but wine and an occasional aperitif since infancy, he was retarded, with hands that shook like the paws of a Skid...
...Normandy, the checkup showed, children from 18 months up drink the local Calvados (homemade applejack) at meals and between meals. In the Vendée, schoolchildren pack a bottle of wine in their lunch baskets; if school is far from home, they take an extra bottle to fortify them for the long trip back. In La Roche-sur-Yon, a three-year-old boy was admitted to a clinic after his family had tried to cure him of worms with dosages of Pernod. In a town near by, a 19-month-old infant died of acute alcoholism...
Throughout France's wine areas, many children take a swig every time the jug is passed. In the Vendée, a local health officer asked a farmer's wife why her two infants were flushed and screaming. Explained the mother placidly: "Last night was the Communion supper. They drank one more Triple Sec than usual...
...Serin reported the findings to the Academy of Medicine. Its staid members listened with dismay, promptly began to lay plans for a big anti-alcoholism campaign in French schools. It will be a difficult and a delicate job, for, as any French peasant will confidently insist, a little wine never hurt anybody...