Word: wining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...military secrets, skip to Germany where they would sell these to the Nazis, then take in the night spots of Europe. When his mother interfered, Mother's Boy Lintin slapped her, bashed in her head with a hammer, after which he and Sycophant Sokolov toasted the matricide in wine...
...Cambridge Fire Department, but firemen agreed that it was a now one on them yesterday afternoon in Brattle Square when they were called upon to extinguish cribs, baby carriages, bed-pots, and other articles of infant paraphernalia in a truck whose exterior was inaptly labelled "Beer and Wine...
...known as Wool wharf where he worked over dull figures in heavy ledgers. Here at the eastern edge of turbulent little London, high over a busy street, and above his modestly-stocked buttery, the poet passed another decade--reading, writing, and drinking from the King's daily pitcher of wine. Only one passage in all his work refers to the multitudinous affairs of his crowded life...
With his pension doubled and a grant of an annual ton of wine, Chaucer ended his life in comfort. Ten months before his death he leased, in a sanguine mood, for fifty-three years a house in the garden of St. Mary's Chapel at Westminster. Surrounded by those distinguished men who loved both the poet and man, Chaucer slipped peacefully into eternity at the turn of the century, a round-numbered date that no English student has difficulty in remembering...
...November after four clerks, two bank managers, two lawyers and a landed proprietor insinuated that he had married his wife Magda "for her money." Black with rage, Dueler Sarga challenged all nine, fought two, wounded one. Round & round Budapest's night clubs afterward staggered Dueler Sarga, quaffing red wine, challenging all and sundry until the list of his opponents numbered "a hundred," so he said...