Word: wining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With an abundance of verbal wisteria, April works its spell upon them all. The firm hand on the teapot relaxes. As the moon swings to the full, Miss Harding's luscious speeches come to ripe fruit. Just as the air is about to be like wine tonight, the castle menage, an enchanting crew of Italian peasants, bustle on the scene. It is a real pleasure to watch them become completely disrupted over the performance of a sinister English rite-the hot bath. Moments like this are heightened by handsome sets and adroit low-key photography. But alas, the story creaks...
...bonneted men of God. Nor was he pleased to find that as regards their bodies, their linen, their tableware, the monks subscribed to an ancient aphorism: ''Who is once washed in Christ needs not to wash again." Author Choukas learned it was better to drink Mount Athos wine than Mount Athos water, which brings on an abdominal bloat. Medical care on the holy mountain turned out to consist mainly of the use of relics and rat oil.* Eleven of the Athonite monasteries are cenobitic, holding to the strict monastic ideals of early Christendom. The rest are idiorrhythmic-liberal...
...riche court, a theme for irony and wisecracks, the Napoleonic legend reduced to farce. "The gaslit tragedy of the Second Empire," Guedalla contemptuously called the regime which was born in intrigue in the early 1850's, found its Empress in the granddaughter of a foreign keeper of a wine shop, and collapsed in a shambles when Bismarck and Moltke sent their crack Prussians into France...
Five formal dinners and five formal receptions are the toll of ceremonial entertainment which custom and etiquet demand of a President. Last week President Roosevelt began his seasonal duty, to end only with Lent. The new White House china was not yet ready, but the old White House wine glasses were polished up and brought out for the first time since before Prohibition. Two kinds of light domestic wine were served. The occasion was the Cabinet Dinner but this year it became the Cabinet & Alphabet dinner and the State Department's division of protocol made social history by deciding...
...Authors present respectable credentials. Frank Schoonmaker has roamed the vineyards of Europe many years, "collecting information and pleasant experiences," for the past year has been wine correspondent for the New Yorker. Tom Marvel, Connecticut vineyard-owner, is now on the Paris staff of the New York Herald, has served on French wine juries, written home about wine...