Word: wining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Landauer has other fancies: She gathers old writing paper, bookplates, lottery tickets, railroad passes, war letters, wine labels. Her "flying" songs come from England, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Russia, Finland, Japan. The oldest is "The Balloon," sung in London in 1782. Most famed is "Come, Josephine, in My Flying Machine" (1910). But not to be scorned is "The Air Ship Waltz for Piano or Organ" (1891), dedicated to the Married Ladies' Musicale of Greensburg, Ind., or "Take Me Down to Squantum, I Want to See Them Fly," composed especially for the Boston Aero Meet of 1912, or "Since...
Marlise was once a loving wife. But her husband died young, from eating a whole chicken cooked in white wine and three stuffed pigeons at a wedding breakfast, and Marlise was left a fairly well-to-do widow with a 14-year-old son. Her magnificent energy could find only one outlet in mid-19th Century Pargny, that of managing what her husband had left...
...Philippe, of Napoleon III, of the Franco-Prussian war, of the French foreign policy that led to that war, of M. Thiers and the Third Republic, of the Paris Commune, of the changing status of women through all this time. He also expatiates upon the qualities of French soil, wine and scenery in the different provinces surrounding Pargny, which is on the River Aisne. All this gives The Iron Mother, which might have been just another story of a dominating female, a salty, Gallic flavor, which will take U. S. readers into the atmosphere of a culture that...
Wash and clean bottles and bottle wine...
...their urge to praise, Italian critics picked on a rousing wine song, a melodic love duet, a last-act intermezzo. No one was candid enough to say that Mascagni had his one brief inspiration 45 years ago when he was an obscure, half-nourished piano-teacher. Until then his way had been consistently hard. His father, a baker, disowned him because he refused to be a lawyer. An uncle helped him to get into a musical conservatory. But Mascagni rebelled against the rules, struck out for himself. He toured as conductor of a fourth-rate opera company until he married...