Word: wining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Greece, they all know how to take it easy. When I was a boy I used to see students take time out between classes at a wine shop, but here it is so different." Mr. Cristos polished an apple on his sleeve till it sparkled brilliantly...
...Throne can be caused to upend and vanish into the wall, a superb berth appearing in its place covered by a white & gold canopy. So that six Cardinals can celebrate Mass at once en route, the Papal Train has six altars sumptuously provided with cruets of water and sacrificial wine, tabernacles, lace altar cloths, candlesticks of all necessary sizes and complete but compact sets of sacred vessels. (Continued...
...hours a day, seven days a week. They are not allowed to answer back, not allowed to overeat, discouraged from marrying. But in spite of their rigorous discipline, their playing has the lush abandon which distinguishes almost all Hungarian orchestras, takes on particular magic late at night when good wine keeps them company. The Lorand orchestra would be a smash-hit in a night club but night clubs are forbidden. Ambitious Edith Lorand refuses to be a mere entertainer, although serious critics may rate her as such. Hers is a concert organization, she claims. It is led by the only...
...works of Hugh A. Stubbins, Jr., also graduated in 1935, were chosen. One of these, "A Wine Collar and Tap Room," won the Boston Society of Architecture prize, the other is a thesis, a design for "A Municipal Sports Building...
There is another story, too. Centaurs, who were brutal creatures, partly human, partly equine, were invited to the wedding of Pirithous, King of the Lapiths. There was great feasting--but the animal would out, and the Centaurs became inflamed with wine and began to lay hands on the women. Ordinarily we might get a bit disturbed about this, but no, for there stands Apollo in the center and being with a god we have nothing to fear. For that matter there's nothing to fear anyway--it's all in sculpture...