Word: wining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This must be by way of valedictory. The lanterns are swaying in the quadrangles, new wine has been poured into old, salt washed bottles, girls have bought new dresses. Strange shadows of far off greatness move in the Yard among us, and pause to stare at Holworthy 14. Families have come, fiancees have come, the girl from Cotuit last summer has come, sight unseen they have come. There is music, and silence, and darkness, and a great light, and a throb, and a happy laugh. There is confetti and a band, and tall gentlemen in reds, and blues, and even...
...Substitution of the word elements for the phrase bread & wine in the communion service. (Methodists use unfermented grape juice in communion.) C. Revision of the marriage service, deleting the phrase with all my worldly goods I thee endow...
...number of things he can do. He can spade in the garden, or ride a horse, or go swimming, or talk to urchins, but he mostly sits, or "goes singin' like the mornin' stars for joy that he was made." And there is, too, in New Hampshire a wine of the country that used to be made from Russets, but now is ground from Baldwins. Boys at college distil it and call it applejack, but the farmers of New Hampshire keep it in a 50-gallon keg and call it cider. It does not burn like Rhum, it does...
Whirl was King. There were half-naked Freshmen sowing their wild oats and tasting the wine of life in the few short moments that were left them before old age and burgherdom crept in upon them. There were Juniors who should have been Freshmen trying to look as if they weren't enjoying this brief return to the elemental. On the fringes of the melee hung those who did not dare and those who did not care but who were yet doomed to be drawn by the flame...
...late great Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, onetime Viceroy of India) brought suit to have him removed as trustee of the family's estate. She charged mismanagement and incompetency. After eight years' litigation, the suit was decided in Joseph Leiter's favor. Famed were his wine cellars, his race horses. Once he wrote a cook book, had it privately printed...