Word: wining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hospitality, Witnesses turned to their own affairs. More than 2,500 of them, togged out in bathing suits, playsuits, pajamas or long underwear, waded hip deep into Lake Erie to be immersed backwards in its waters. (Baptizers, chilled by the four-hour ceremony, swigged from a bottle of port wine...
...Faure, impoverished by war and inflation, had turned the castle into a hotel, stayed on to manage it. Among their first customers were bashful, leathernecked Pierre Barrière, a railroad worker, and his pert, white-satined bride, Jane Cantarel. Their horny-handed wedding guests, stimulated by wine and altitude, made the bishops' terrace ring with the raucous Les Montagnards (The Mountain People...
Rich Mixture. In Jersey City, Mrs. Mary Pearman, unable to sleep, mixed herself a drink of wine, aspirin, liniment, mentholated salve and Worcestershire sauce, slept it off in a hospital...
...lies naked, the black-robed priest intones parts of the true Mass backward, in dog Latin, substituting the word 'evil' for 'good' and the word 'Satan' for 'God.' The prostitute, robed in scarlet, performs the duties of acolyte; the goblet of wine is placed between the breasts of the recumbent virgin and a part of the wine is spilled over her body. At the supreme moment, the sacrament, the consecrated wafer . . . is debased instead of elevated, and subsequently defiled." (Witchcraft; Harcourt Brace...
...demands on the mind. Having neither the audacity of Matisse nor the intellectuality of Picasso, he turns constantly to the commonplace: simple cottage interiors, village streets, somnolent nudes, bowls of fruit or fish, all as familiar and soothing to his fellow Frenchmen as old bed slippers and good wine...