Word: wining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bully Beef club had a battle-scarred can of bully beef to be opened by the last two survivors of its 286 members. Said Last Man Lockwood: "We ate many cans of bully beef during the Civil War but we chose a rare old bottle of Burgundy wine for the final toast. Anyway, wine is more in keeping with the times." Forthwith beside the battle-scarred can of bully beef was placed a brand-new bottle of Burgundy...
...last week was a full-sized trade war between France and Britain. Repeal in the U. S. was largely to blame. Fighting for a larger share of the newly-established liquor trade, France agreed to accept greatly increased quotas of U. S. apples and pears in return for more wine shipped to the U. S. (TIME, Jan. 1). Anxious as France is to help her vintners, she is still more firmly bound to the quota system and economic self-sufficiency. Hence some other import quotas had to be decreased, and it was the British that suffered. British shipments were reduced...
...lances of blue-nosed morality and pseudo-science were hacking and slashing at Merrie England. A noble tradition was in peril--who would defend it? Launcelot came forward in the venerable person of George Saintsbury, to champion the cause of the first and fairest of the immortal trio, Wine, Woman, and Song. The victory went to the good cause, and Mr. Pussyfoot retired ignominiously to his American domain, there to reign supreme for 14 years. When finally his oppressive rule galled too much, and his subjects rose in wrath and expelled him, what more fitting than that Excalibur should...
...Notes on a Cellar Book" is, however, much more than a guide to wines and liquors, enumerating their uses, merits, and characteristics. It is the record of a life, and the justification of a tradition. George Saintsbury was 74 years old when the book was written, and those years had been full--full of liquor and full of living. The book is a treatise on the liquor, but the living shines through on every page. Not just in anecdotes, profusely interspersed as they are, but in such by-the-way sentences as this: "There is no good...
...book makes one sad, for almost all the wines mentioned by the author as ministers to his Dionysian joy were nineteenth century vintages, and have long since fulfilled their noble destiny. But some will derive comfort from the opinion that "Gin. . . is a very excellent, most wholecome, and, at its best, most palatable drink"; others from the realization that the twentieth century has had its good wine years, that Saintsbury learned by experiment, that there is as much ahead as in the past. Comfort will be derived, too, from the sparkle and rest radiating from every word...