Word: wining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accouchement is secretly effected. It is then that the reason for Mademoiselle's benefaction comes to light. An old maid, she has always wanted a baby. She is welcome to Christine's. Her father welcomes her with jewelry, a motor car, a big party, even a little wine- but no cigarets. "There are some things," he jovially admonishes her, "you must not know about...
...TALE OF TROY-John Masefield- MacMillan ($1.50). Though England's Poet Laureate Masefield does not believe in drinking his annual allowance of good Canary wine (TIME, Jan. 11) he upholds most laureately another time-honored poetic tradition: reading poetry aloud. He dedicates this Tale of Troy to the seven "beautiful Speakers" who recited it, last Midsummer Night, in his attentive presence...
...rises one-hundred-and-ninety feet above the Delta, but he is not appalled by that. It was on this Delta that Josiah Quincy paid his sixpence in 1821 to shoot at a turkey, the same stately Josiah Quincy who made the parting senior, having the customary cake and wine at Wadsworth House with his president, feel as though he had drunk "with Prince Metternich at Johannesberg a bottle of his choicest vintage." There on the Delta the Freshmen and Sophomores held their annual football game, with the upper classes ranged on the stone posts and square-sharp rails...
...Parisian, Banyuls is the name of a heavy dessert wine, artificially colored scarlet and spiked with quinine, which rivals Byrrh and Dubonnet as an apéritif. It is pressed among the bare hills of a French Catalan fishing village 30 mi. from the Spanish border. In Banyuls 71 years ago Aristide Maillol was born, there he still spends his winters. His grandfather was a huge peasant of tremendous physical strength who was actively engaged in Banyuls' third most important industry, smuggling. Smuggler Maillol was successful enough to indulge his grandson's taste for art, though young Aristide...
...German Manner Gesang Verein devoting itself seriously to ambitious music. For this reason it is advocated that the Glee Club surrender its little to some other group of Harvard singers who will represent more closely the gay, gleesome choristers of the Nineties, with their frivolous glees of wine, women, and song...