Word: wining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quite a drinker, although you wouldn't take him for one. He could take it all right. I think it was in the summer of 1931, when he established a National Government in Canton against Chiang Kaishek, [that] I presented him with a cask of Akita sake (rice wine) from my native province and we drank together one night at his house in Tung-shan [suburb of Canton]. He drank sake, cold, from a big glass and swallowed big mouthfuls, instead of, like us, heating it and sipping it from tiny cups. But he didn't seem...
...Detroit socialites braved wintry winds to attend. By week's end 2,500 gallerygoers from as far away as San Francisco and Baltimore had followed them. To add to the U. S. atmosphere, Cranbrook provided U. S. tomato plants in window boxes, U. S. music, Rhine wine flavored to taste like U. S. new-mown...
...again, found in order. Two young lieutenants took pity on the Times'?, Philip, escorted him back to the railway, and turned him over to the stationmaster's wife. She took him up to her kitchen while he waited for another train, made him an omelet, gave him wine and coffee. Two hours later Percy Philip was on his way to Paris, safe in a compartment...
...Fine food (at such restaurants as the French, Italian, Swedish, Turkish) is still worth what it costs: $1.50 to $3.50 for an entree, $5 for a complete meal with wine...
...seized on as the hall-mark of Sibelius's idiom. But the great moments in his great works are not this "incarnation of the fjords of Finland." The great works breathe a richness and a warmth such as cold water never did or could have, but which ripe heady wine always...