Word: wining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adherent of Otto, but there was every indication that the Prince was highly delighted to hear from M. Flandin last week that France still opposes any Hapsburg restoration. While Otto gloomed, Starhemberg expansively led the retinue of French detectives by whom he was surrounded on evenings of wine, women & warbling in Paris night spots...
...steel factory. The workers go on strike. He gets a job as night watchman in a department store where he enjoys roller skating through the corridors at night. When three old cronies break into the store, Chaplin is constrained to share a snack with them in the wine department. Next morning he wakes up on a counter under a mass of lingerie. He goes to jail...
...spirited gentleman on the eve of ordeal hit upon the commendable scheme of drowning anxiety in wine; and incidentally lubricating the cerebellum. He did the job so thoroughly that when the examination had begun the effects had not yet worn off. But there was no occasion for regret; the scheme seemed to be working nobly. The subject matter was available; in fact, it was wellmarshalled and happily fluent. There was only one defect; the sordid mechanics of writing had slipped away...
Whereupon I did tell him things he did not know: That this Tower possessed magic charms: It be what you think it to be. Whereupon I showed him the wine barrel; the four poster; the stained glass windows; even the bats and the elves; and, but only for a moment, appeared the Old Woman. Alice, The Hatter, and, most real, the Dormouse...
Another dinner, served in October, 1725, included pork, cheese, "fowle," butter, "beafe," carrots, turnip, apple pie, and wine, and cost 22 shillings, or about $5. Apple pie and wine almost always were on the dinner menu in those days, the ledger shown...