Word: wining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wets waxed optimistic fortnight ago because President Hoover publicly pledged Dwight Whitney Morrow, Wet Republican Senatorial nominee in New Jersey, "every support . . . every confidence" in the November election, their enthusiasm must have been diminished last week by two White House events: 1) President Hoover had the 1,800 wine glasses belonging to his official home packed in barrels and shipped to storage; 2) he returned vigorously to his old thesis that Prohibition is only one of many important elements in the general crime situation, boldly defied a move by Congress to reduce the appropriation for and thus limit the scope...
...easier to put away wine glasses than it was to make Congress like the N.L.E.C. Chairman Wickersham had asked Congress for another $250,000 to carry on his Commission's inquiry into all laws for a second year. He had $88,000 left unexpended out of the first year's allowance. The Commission had used only $8,000 specifically on Prohibition work. The House on a parliamentary technicality knocked out all new funds for the Commission. In the Senate Senator Carter Glass of Virginia assaulted the N.L.E.C. on the ground that it had frittered away time and money...
...Morrow was reading the story of Hippoclides (chapter CXXVI through CXXIX) which describes the contest Clisthenes, tyrant of Sicyon, held to choose a husband for his daughter Agarista. After a year of trial, he preferred young Hippoclides of Athens, but on the evening of the choice, Hippoclides drank wine, danced upside down on a table, disgusted Clisthenes who cried: ''You have danced away your wife!" "Hippoclides cares not," said Hippoclides...
...yellowish-white liquid which, as Japanese scientists ingeniously say "stands midway between wine and beer." Usual alcoholic strength 12 to 15%. The 60,000,000 Japanese drink 150,000,000 gallons of sakė yearly. Like gin, sakė contains a dash of glycerin...
...France, wine-tasters sip wines, let their tongues tell them whether the fluid is bound for a plebian carafe or a gentleman's cellar. Were it not for whiskey-tasters England's famed blenders would be unable to produce a uniformly good product year in, year out. On equally skilled men depends the fact that all vermilion dyes are uniform, that azure satins are azure. But foibles of the color-matcher's eyes, which tire quickly, make them expensive to their employers...