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Word: wining (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Staten Island within their $100-a-month salaries, entertained themselves modestly with occasional visits to cinemas and trips to Coney Island (funpark) until their last month in town. Then a mishap befell them, upset their finances. "We went to a place with some girls," said Fernando, "and ordered wine. We didn't think that would cost much. But the waiter brought champagne, and after that the girls ordered more. The evening cost us $95. American bandits are worse than the American conception of Mexican bandits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 14, 1931 | 9/14/1931 | See Source »

...Ancona, Italy, firemen rushed to a burning house, found no water with which to extinguish the flames. Ancona's ingenious firemen attached their hose to a barrel of wine, put out the fire with vino rosso...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 7, 1931 | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

...Newark, N. J., Joseph Keelen and five friends built a fishing boat, christened it Miss Keansbnrg with a champagne wine-brick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 7, 1931 | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

...consequence of a birthday party which Producer Carroll gave Banker Edrington that Producer Carroll was sent to Atlanta Penitentiary for perjury in 1927. It was also as a consequence of the birthday party (the producer denied that a girl had sat naked in a tub of wine) that Earl Carroll became a national character...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Flesh Cathedral | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

...Wine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 7, 1931 | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

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