Word: wining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like Hitler, Himmler is an undeviating vegetarian. He adores U.S. breakfast cereals, drinks herb tea instead of coffee, occasionally sips a glass of light wine. Unlike Hitler, he occasionally smokes cigars. Himmler shares Hitler's interest in what they call art and wants his whole SS to be art-conscious and to have good Nordic taste...
Enrico Caruso made his dazzling international reputation in Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. The son of a wine-swilling Neapolitan mechanic, he started as one of the many bush-league Italian tenors of the '90s with a voice so deep that he was accused of being a baritone. Not for several years did he discover his golden tenor range and enormous volume. And even with these assets, his Metropolitan debut in 1903 was no smash. Critics found his acting inferior and his vocal style coarser than that of his great, aristocratic predecessor, Jean de Reszke...
...keenest literary minds and a master of paradox. A passionate journalist (for 40 years Chesterton wrote for a dozen papers), he was the creator of one of literature's famed sleuths (Father Brown) and the most prominent Roman Catholic convert of his day. A devotee of beer and wine, he weighed between 300 and 400 Ib. Once, when he politely heaved himself up in a crowded bus, three women took the proffered seat. A lover and highly successful practitioner of romantic balladry, Chesterton carried a sword cane and a 14-in. clasp knife under his flowing cape. Assailants might...
Karl Horak lingered longer than usual over his glass of wine in a Prague café, and because he tarried, missed the bus that would have dropped him at his home town. No matter; he could walk; it was not far. He got a lift part way, then took a short cut through the woods...
...became the master of ceremonies of radio's Information Please, for which he reportedly gets $1,500 a week. He lectured widely, for fat fees. He edited I Believe (1939) and Reading I've Liked (1941). He bought stock in a wine company. With his two brothers, Edwin and William, he operates a flourishing radio talent agency, Fadiman Associates, Ltd. He is on the editorial committee of The Readers Club, a book-of-the-monthly sort of organization that deals in $1.25 classics. Estimates of his income go as high as $100,000 a year, beside which...