Word: wining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proclaimed as a nation-wide drive on hopshops. A Treasury Department interpretation of the Supreme Court decision also raised a shadowy threat of prosecution against many a potent, prosperous grape juice company now shipping an unfermented product in kegs to customers with specific instructions for transforming it into illegal wine...
Nevertheless the Poet Laureate is a member of the Lord Chamberlain's office. He receives £72 a year, and, as a bonus, can take his choice between an additional £27 or a butt of canary wine. Moreover it was noticed last week, when Poet John Masefield was appointed Laureate, to succeed the late Dr. Robert Bridges, that the sale of his books spurted, both in London and New York, due partly to public clamor, partly to bursts of advertising feverishly concocted overnight by shrewd publishers...
...also is Laureate Masefield's attitude toward wine, immemorial beverage of bards. Perhaps because he worked in a bar he has been for years as complete a teetotaler as Henry Ford. "I don't like the taste of wine," said he last week. "On the other hand I like its appearance. It is after all the essence of sunlight. But one is stimulated by one's feelings. I cannot write verses to order. I do not think any man really writes unless he is deeply stirred...
...agrees with Heywood Broun that good football games like good wine are better for the mellowing effect of age. Harvard and Princeton students of today regret that Harvard men of yesterday published a Lampoon of many barbs, that Princeton men paraded down Nassau Street on the night of the break rejoicing. --The Daily Princetonian...
...authority on backgammon is Grosvenor Nicholas, Manhattan clubman, retired wine importer. Last week his book, issued in 1928 when nobody cared, enjoyed high sales. Backgammoner Nicholas himself, urbane, quiet-spoken, contradicted his own contention that there is no skill in the game by winning, in one afternoon, 35 games of backgammon in a club (New York Racquet & Tennis) where sometimes 1,000 games are played a day. Writes he: "It is unnecessary to preserve silence, always so depressing. The disturbing presence of the fair sex . . . is never unwelcome. Where there is no concentration, there can be no distraction...