Word: wining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When Wine, Women and, Song opened on Broadway last September at a $1.65 top, critics belted it as the shoddiest kind of fourbit burlesque. Commissioner of Licenses Paul Moss slapped it with a court summons charging indecency. Business immediately boomed...
...When Wine, Women and Song went on trial for its life last week, the defendants -producer, managers, etc.-wanted the jury, consisting of seven men who confessed they had been to burlesque and five women who were not asked, to see the show. The judge said No. The defendants also suggested a performance in court. Again the judge said...
...theater front, Mayor LaGuardia's police hauled off to court, on indecency charges, the management of a dismal burlesque-revue called Wine, Women & Song. Said the Mayor: "The title is very misleading. The public thought it was Viennese music." The public, its misapprehensions cleared up, promptly took a new interest in Wine, Women & Song. The managers,who had expected to fold in a week for lack of customers, gleefully hauled down the closing notice. If the court case dragged on long enough, the show might...
...never saw such excitement," said General Clark later. "Maps disappeared like lightning. A French general changed into civilian clothes in one minute flat, and I last saw him going out of a window. They were going in all directions." The Americans hid in a wine cellar, Clark with a revolver in one hand and 15,000 francs in the other, "to shoot them or bribe them." After an hour the police went away. The Americans escaped...
Draja Mihailovich's Chetniks now have a song that describes a heroic drinking bout between Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin. After downing oceans of red wine they decide to send a message of hope to Douglas MacArthur...