Word: wining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wrecked the sloop Marie Elise. The Nahuas had been hospitable. The English, said the old men, help one fight and leave the seed of warriors. The witch-doctors had been unable to save poor Sam, but Eph and Roger became chieftains and left the seed. Life was pleasant: Nahuan wine was tasty, honors were plentiful, women were silent and prolific. Roger, however, found everything in this Carribean land maddening to his touch, lukewarm; and Eph yearned for Susannah, for pumpkin pie, for quoyhaugs. They had left, had spent a year in New Orleans, and had shipped for Boston...
...spirit businesses in the East all during Prohibition. Also, their analytical laboratory has lent their help and aid in analyzing spirits from the toxicological standpoint. Bendiner & Schlesinger, Inc. have secured the much sought after agency of Berry Bros, of London, who have been established since the XVII century as wine merchants, and at the present time are acting as wine merchants to the royal household of England. They produce such well known brands as "Cutty Sark" and "St. James's Blend" Scotch Whiskies, and are famous for their "London...
...hundred and eight of us, each with his separate heart, yet each heart pure as a star; in joy we shall be one, in sorrow-one; our hour of birth was not one. but we will die together.'... On that day did they all mingle blood with wine and drink it and when they had drunk themselves to mighty drunkenness, they parted...
...months & months U. S. importers have been scrambling madly for exclusive agencies. Before the War about 20 big firms divided the bulk of wine & liquor imports, which amounted to $17,000,000 annually. Even a big importer thought himself lucky if he cleared $250,000. But in the last half year more than 100 new firms have mushroomed-many with no more than an agreement to handle the output of an obscure Alsatian vineyard. An importer requires little capital but, to be successful, long steeping in the lore of liquor...
Alex. D. Shaw & Co., Inc., control of which was bought by National Distillers, biggest U. S. whiskey company, concentrates on a wine list culled from Tarragona, Spain to Penn...