Word: wining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Butler was of prime importance to the College, for it was he who dispensed beer, wine, and chocolate to the hungry and thirsty scholars. Another man filled the capacities of bursar, dean's office, parietal board, and coop. This worthy was the steward, who kept track of absences, excuses, and suspensions, and collected fines and imposed other disciplinary action. He also arranged for "special orders" for the students who wished to eat in the sanctity of their rooms, and who were well equipped to prepare their nightly repasts. The night of the fire, these backbones of the College lost their...
Increasing the low-powered wine tax from 4? to 16? a gal. while running the tax on high-powered wines...
Australia was omitted, not because of any Roosevelt animus toward vineyardists down under, but because the President's quotas are based on the wine exports of countries to the U. S. before Prohibition. At that time Australia's export trade in wine was an almost invisible trickle...
...South Atlantic. Behind them lay a five-month cruise from New York to Labrador, around Greenland, through Denmark and Sweden, into Russia to Moscow, around the British Isles, through France, Holland, Switzerland, Spain to Portugal. From Lisbon, where Mrs. Lindbergh declined two bottles of 200-year-old port wine, they flew to the Azores. Thence they zigzagged via the Canary Islands, where Colonel Lindbergh painted a sign on his plane: "Lindbergh's Property. Trespassing Forbidden"; and Cape Verde Islands to the tiny British colony where they now broiled. Ahead of them lay a 1,875-mi. salt water...
...advocate retires giving thanks. The choir bursts into a mighty Te Deum. All the churches in Rome send up a joyful pealing of bells. The Pope sings Mass, during which he accepts offerings from his cardinals-candles, loaves, silver and gold casks of water and wine, three cages of doves, sparrows, finches and larks, which set up a melodious cooing and twittering throughout St. Peter...