Word: wined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Everything went according to plan," reported Captain Houot. "We even found time to have lunch [sandwiches and Muscadet wine] on our way down...
...vast impersonal forces of Nature, the earthy pleasures of the Folk, and Satan's cynical malice. Except for a brief moment of enchanted sleep, the Devil offers him only a brutal bird's eye view of earth and its blasphemies: armies on the march, revelers bloated with wine, and a drunken Amen on the death of a rat. For his great affaire de coeur, Faust must sneak behind a curtain while Marguerite prepares for bed, then pop into sight only when magic has rendered her more than willing. The disillusion culminates as neighbors assemble outside and mockingly call for Mother...
...story progresses, but Duggan is moved neither to sentimental sermons nor to tedious explanations borrowed from some textbook. He knows, and makes the reader know, that after all. he writes of a day in which "if the officers are killed the men retire, in good order, towards the nearest wine-casks...
Husband's Mite. In Hamilton, Ohio, denying charges of nonsupport, Edison Hughes was asked what he had given his family, answered, "Well, I took some wine home to settle the wife's nerves," got six months in jail...
Dartmouth's wild and woolly Winter Carnival, where the girls run faster and the wine flows like wine, is back again this weekend. The fraternities have dusied off their well worn bartenders, and hotels, and rooming houses report few empty beds...