Word: wining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Concessions. Because the U. S. has no quota system, except for human immigration, its side of the bargain was relatively simple on paper. Reductions were made on 71 French imports, among the most important being brandy, champagne, vermouth and still wines. U. S. drinkers will, after June 15,* pay 61? less for a bottle of champagne, 14? less for vermouth, 10? less for wine, 90? less for brandy...
...potent Committee on the State of the Church rejected a proposal to broaden the grounds on which Methodist ministers may remarry divorced persons; turned down a "fanatical"' suggestion that "cup" be substituted for "wine"' in the wording of the communion service ritual; sent to the general conference an opinion that unofficial groups like the radical Methodist Federation for Social Service may continue to call themselves Methodist provided they emphasize their unofficial status...
...bounty of Sweden," when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature (the only time the prize has been given to an Irishman). The news reached him late at night, and when the reporters had gone he and his wife searched the cellar for a bottle of wine, to celebrate. The cellar was empty, so they cooked sausages instead. At the presentation ceremony in Stockholm, Yeats saw with dismay that the recipients, after going down from the platform to receive their medals from the King, had to walk backwards up the steps again. Most of them sidled up, half-turned...
...record of a sort was established by the town of St. Gaudens in the wine-growing Department of Haute-Garonne. Twelve hundred voters were faced with 111 candidates trying for one seat. Candidates included five barbers, three bakers, eleven shopkeepers, two printers, nine electricians, one professional wine-taster...
...sleepy look, waved the messenger away. Eventually a mountain of spaghetti appeared. News to the foreign Press was the fact that II Duce is a dunker. With fine appetite he absorbed two plates of spaghetti and a helping of roast beef with peas. Into his glass of red wine he dipped crust after crust of coarse bread which he sucked appreciatively...