Word: wining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time, when the famous churchman was writing for a London paper, a friend asked him: "Shall I address you as a pillar of the Church of England, or as two columns of the Evening Standard?" This story, we are told, is the very life and breath of the swank wine parties of the Colleges at the moment...
...study of the report of the Special Recess Committee shows that all existing licenses for the sale of light wine and beer will be revoked at the legislation of the proposed law. Reilly explained the widespread unwillingness of merchants to renew their beer and ale licenses by pointing out that many of them are rapidly going into debt...
...housekeeper, feeling that a man's death should be in keeping with his accomplishments, never spoke of the passing of Brahms until rangy, likeable Author Schauffler came along. For him she described the dying Brahms whose last words-"Ja, das ist schön"-concerned some wine that a friend had sent in. At the end. she said. Brahms could not speak at all because of his false teeth which kept slipping...
...time a fellow comes here to me and said he wanted me to cook them a big supper and they drink one, two bottles of wine, and their girls come too, and then they go to the dance. All right, I said. So I made a big supper, and when they come already they drank a lot. Then they put whiskey in the wine. My God, yes. I said to Fontan, 'On va etre malade!' 'Oui,' il dit. Then these girls were sick, nice girls, too, all-right girls. They were sick right at the table. Fontan tried to take...
...preceding paragraph contains the acute observations of Madame Fontan on American drinkers in Wyoming. In "Wine of Wyoming," Ernest Hemingway has given a picture of a French couple who earned their living by selling homemade wine and beer at a time when prohibition agents were enforcing the law. Yet it contains some of Hemingway's more humorous lines, for he is wholly at home with these people and recognizes each trait which will amuse an American...