Word: wining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reign of Yü in China, so the legend goes, a man named I Ti found out how to make wine. The discovery was ' important enough to show the Emperor's daughter; with small cries of delight, she took it straight to the throne of her father Yü. The Emperor sipped, narrowed his eyes, and poured the wine on the ground saying, "The day will come when this thing will cost someone a kingdom...
Long after Yü, but at the dawn of Chinese history, the Shangs sat on the throne of China (1766-1122 B.C.). They offered wine to their ancestral spirits and to the gods of the air, and poured liba tions to the gods of the earth. What remained, they drank - it could infuse spirit into even the dullest men. They poured the wine in bronze pots and cups which were shaped to a perfection that perhaps no metal work has equaled since...
...moon shining down on the wine cup making the rounds...
...slim, handsome gallant who had dazzled Elizabeth in the Tower. His face was red, his beard streaked with grey, his hair thin. And despite Elizabeth's efforts to keep him on a diet ("two ounces of flesh" a day, and "the twentieth part of a pint of wine to comfort his stomach"), sweet Robin was getting paunchy. And then, one day, the Queen discovered that he had secretly married handsome, widowed Lettice Knollys, Countess of Essex -or "that she-wolf," as the Queen preferred to call...
Mixed Drink. In Springfield, Ohio, hospital attendants reported Willie Mar tin's condition as "good" after he had been treated for absorption of a home made punch made of iodine, turpentine, kerosene, rat poison, lighter fluid, shoe polish, and wine...