Word: wining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Norman Makin is a teetotaling Methodist lay preacher at home but he gave his guests wine and brandy while drinking orange juice himself. All week Norman Makin, chairman of the Security Council of the United Nations Organization, was a busy, genial host. Even so, he had an uneasy time...
...Russian and Chinese officials through a good-will round of luncheons, receptions, military reviews and charitable visits. For Red Army heroes, Madame brought Chinese decorations and special Chinese candies. At a Red Army banquet, the Russians toasted her and the Generalissimo in Manchurian brandy. She responded with port wine and an earnest, delicately phrased Chinese wish...
Step up, folks, step right up! Get your genu-wine snake oil, only $2.50 a copy...
...much," Inga (wife) and Madeleine Wanderer (mistress). U.S. Army pathologists, who have had the Ley brain since last October (see cut), found that the areas controlling behavior had suffered "a longstanding degenerative process . . . sufficient ... to have impaired Dr. Ley's mental and emotional faculties." Whether it was wine or women, they could...
...Death, a Legend. Hashish and women interested him enormously, but he liked alcohol most. He traded off his fashionable clothes for one baggy, brown velvet suit, and took to staggering up & down the steep streets of Montmartre, drinking wine and coughing blood. He and Utrillo would wander into bars, introducing each other to the drunks inside as the "greatest painter in the world"; when the cops came, Modigliani would be carried off, excitedly reciting Dante to the uncomprehending constabulary. Head-wagging Parisians called him the peintre maudit (cursed painter...