Word: wining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Decrease per capita consumption of alcoholics (from 32.53 gallons of beer, .97 gallon of liquor, .41 gallon of wine in 1899; to 16.42 gallons of beer, .25 gallon of liquor. .31 gallon of wine...
...Aeschylus and Homer are Poetry to him. His poetic license having been conferred on him by royal appointment, Laureate Masefield does not hesitate to use it. Specimens: Poetry "is best in lands of vintage and in those sunny years which have been years of good vintage."* It is "the wine of the human grape." It is, in short, something of which "it is not possible to speak . . . without submission to something not understood, that is greater than the perishing self." The subjects of the most readable parts of the book are already in libraries, under the names of Shakespeare, Dante...
...English Laureates traditionally have received annually, as part of their governmental encouragement, a butt of good Canary wine. Laureate Masefield, a respectable, spurned the wine. "I simply don't like the taste of it. On the hand, I like its appearance...
...King of all the Gypsies in the null Last week, from far & near, a horde of Pharaoh's People gathered outside Los Angeles to pay King Mark due homage. Peddlers, phrenologists, fortune-tellers and silversmiths convened to eat succulent barbecued steer, to dance and to drink as much wine as they could hold. One who did himself particularly well at the jubilee was Louis Adams. King Mark's brother. Dark Louis fell to brooding over his wife from whom he had separated in Chicago two months before. She had also gone West to attend the celebration. Two days...
...presents showered by expectant political job-seekers on Japan's new Premier Ki ("Old Fox") Inukai last week were: eight sets of silverware; 80 baskets of fresh fish; 46 boxes of dried fish; 43 casks of sake; 33 baskets of fruit; 18 cases of beer; 15 cases of wine and 614 dozen rice cakes...