Word: wining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Statistics: 27 bedrooms, a cellar stocked by the Master of the Wine Cellars at Buckingham Palace, one ballroom, one gymnasium...
Dizzying America. Brazilian Ambassador S. Gurgél do Amaral gave President-elect Prestes his final send-off from Washington with a banquet of 300 guests brilliantly staged in the Pan-American Union's imposing "Hall of the Americas." Although he had every legal right to serve wine the Ambassador refrained "at the request of Senhor Prestes" and "as a special courtesy to President Hoover...
...Others mocking said. These men are full of new wine. But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judaea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words: For these are not drunken, as ye suppose, seeing it is but the third hour of the day. . . . Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. . . . Then they...
...life. When he became of age he abandoned the ambitions of his family and became dandy living a life before a mirror with a mistress Americans would describe as a "yella girl." From then until his death the poet carried on a long and weary struggle with debt, disease, wine, opium, and impotence. Through it all he kept up his unending search for the "Ideal Beauty". His life was a duel between Catholicism and Paganism, between flesh and the spirit. He died a failure, yet his poetry lives today as some of the most beautiful that the French nation...
LOVE BY ACCIDENT-Louis Marlow-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). This book's suggestive jacket (by archly suggestive Peter Arno) and suggestive blurb cover what is superficially a rather naughty farce. It is actually a sermon on post-War youth, morals, manners. Its upshot: that sanity and simplicity are best, wine better than gin, old-fashioned love better than new-fangled neuroses. To Tony Buckram women are attracted as moths to a candle. He himself burns with a cold flame. He likes women and is no pervert, but they seem to him dreadfully rapacious, scarifying. Tony has had a queer, handicapped...