Word: wining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revenue from 3.2% wine...
...quite capable of becoming a self-contained economic unit. At the Ministry of Commerce in Paris last week, Premier Daladier, a former Colonial Minister himself, sat down with a handful of Cabinet Ministers and the Governors of all French colonies, protectorates and mandated territories to discuss cocoa, mahogany, wine, tea, petroleum, spices, cotton, wool, etc., arrange tentative quotas among the colonies, set up machinery for an official Colonial Conference in Paris, six months hence, after London...
...born in 1736, had lived 197 years. By the time he was ten years old he had traveled in Kansu, Shansi, Tibet, Annam, Siam and Manchuria gathering herbs. He continued to gather herbs for the rest of his first 100 years. He lived on herbs and plenty of rice wine. When asked for his secret of long life. Li Ching-yun gave it readily: "Keep a quiet heart, sit like a tortoise, walk sprightly like a pigeon and sleep like a dog." The "Scholar War Lord" Wu Pei-fu. not satisfied with this formula, took Li into his home...
...stepped into the big station plaza a roar of "Banzai!" from 20,000 Japanese throats made his controlled face work, his toothbrush mustache jump up & down. The Emperor sent him a cask of sake (rice wine) and a case of fish, had him to luncheon at the Imperial Palace. To his countrymen Matsuoka's statements were a model for homecoming Japanese statesmen...
...scurried from alleys going toward the large cellar which Armakeli had built; he had once said in one of his ecstatic moments that to die happily one had to be prostrate, with mouth opened and with a spout directly above the oral cavity so that the light iodine coloured wine which he made might trickle downward from a flagon. Modest but confident he had prognosticated to a skeptical people that the day would arrive when they would no longer laugh at his whimsicalities but praise his foresight; and the day had come. Armakeli's compatriots sang ubilantly...