Word: wining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That His Majesty now regards this wine & women period of his princehood as a sort of Gethsemane appears from the design of The White Cross. On a white-enamel field the new decoration bears Carol's portrait in miniature, over his brow a cruel crown of thorns...
Fresh from the presses was a handsome, claret-colored volume called Wine Making For The Amateur by Professor Rose. It is privately issued by the Bacchus Club*Its format was designed by Carl Purington Rollins, head of the Yale University Press...
...potential delight for homeloving sybarites, the book is dedicated to "that large group of citizens who have always cherished a glass of sound wine as a vitally important part of their dinner." Testimonials to the cup that cheers but does not inebriate have been culled from Thackeray, Athaeneus, Pliny, Aristotle, Galen, Plutarch. "On the other hand, we cannot be too emphatic in declaring that we are not interested in promoting the happiness of that wretched group whose only criterion of excellence in wine is the violence of its 'kick.' Let them ride white mule to maudlin joys...
...main points: use only wine grapes, protect the liquid from contact with the air, blend...
...poor boy, is not a rich man. Born in Liverpool, he went to sea at 14. As every Masefield devotee knows, he once worked as handyman in a New York bar. But for 25 years he has been a teetotaller, liking the looks but not the taste of wine. He lives with his wife and daughter on Boar's Hill, five miles from Oxford, where his melancholy mien and rusty, plunging gait are a perennial peripatetic phenomenon. He founded the amateur Boar's Hill Players, who acted now Shakespeare, now Masefield; he himself once played the ghost...