Word: wining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Skateland, got $3 to $5 for a strip of 24 three-gallon stamps. Some boys bought job lots and resold them. Babyfaced, nonchalant Wier was finally apprehended and removed to the Federal Correctional Institution in Arapahoe County. Said he proudly: "I blew probably more than $1,000 on wine, women and song, like they say in stories...
...sandwich. But also reprimanded was Café Chambord, last Manhattan stronghold for those who must have their pâté de foie gras direct from Strasbourg. The Chambord had been commended by Columnist Lucius Beebe as a nice little place to get a $35 dinner for two without wine. Now OPA inspectors found that the Chambord was getting $15 for a $12 pheasant dinner (Le Coq Faisan en Belle Vue Edward VII, for two). The management hastily dropped Le Coq, substituted a $10 veal chop...
...that he had found a way out: he gives his pictures away. As a solver of financial problems, Sir Frank Brangwyn seemed to fellow artists reminiscent of Lewis Carroll's White Knight, who thought up a scheme "to keep the Menai Bridge from rust by boiling it in wine...
...onions between meals, frequently carried an alarm clock dangling from his hand in place of a watch, scrubbed his hide regularly with a stiff tooth brush. He followed Yoga, was a physical fitness fanatic, refused to smoke but enjoyed good food and wine. He read widely-from Plato to comic strips-and remembered everything. He loved music and the Bible, was a serious student of philosophy, strategy, religious history. He knew the Army manuals and the lives of all the great generals by heart. He spoke fluent Arabic and Hebrew. He was a formidable and logical argufier and he loved...
...Officer Jacqueline Leigh-Mallory, 23, only daughter of the invasion's air commander, British Air Chief Marshal Trafford Leigh Leigh-Mallory; and U.S. Army Air Forces Flight Officer William Ellwood Doherty Jr., 26; in London. In peacetime he was a chemist at his family's Pleasant Valley Wine Co., a top-ranking American champagne producer, in Hammondsport...