Word: wining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...experience as an oarsman, over 28 years," the coach said. "I was never beaten by a teetotaller, and I drank all the alcohol, wine and beer I could buy, beg or borrow...
Late that night burly Ann Arbor policemen shoved their way into five fraternity houses (Phi Delta Theta, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Kappa Sigma, Theta Delta Chi), wakened the torpid brothers, searched their rooms for liquor. They found 50 quarts of whiskey, gin, wine, half a case of beer. At 3 a.m. 79 students were marched off to police headquarters, charged with disorderly conduct. Except for ten Dekes ("Mother of Jollity") whom it was necessary to threaten with a "night in the coop," the 79 made little or no resistance to arrest. Chief Student Councillor Merton Bell, a Kappa...
...Kaposszecsko, Hungary, Joseph Reitinger, native who had made his fortune in the U. S., told the official village announcer to go about with his drum, invite the whole village to the local public house for free drinks, free music. Joseph Reitinger paid for 3 bbl. of wine, 2 bbl. of beer, 7 gal. of spirits. Next night he wished to do the same thing. Officials banned the party: they had been obliged to break up 17 fights...
...Less respectful last week were burglars who broke into Dr. Einstein's summer home at Caputh, Germany, drank his wine, stole a piece of Japanese embroidery...
Under the old Chinese tariff there were five separate bureaus for collecting taxes on wine & loose tobacco, rolled tobacco, stamp, yarn, kerosene (China, unmotorized. uses far more kerosene than gasoline). The new Soong tariff may irk foreign exporters by raising all the rates, but it will vastly expedite shipments by reducing these five tax bureaus...