Word: wining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Douglas fans may well agree that by pouring old wine into his new cocktail shaker, Author Douglas has once again produced a palatable mixture of ageless theme and modern viewpoint with the expertness of one of the oldest hands in the business...
...Telegram began reprinting news stories of the 19205. One from Aurora, 111.: "State dry agents today stormed the home of Joseph De King, 40, after bombarding it with gas bombs, killed Mrs. De King, 35, and clubbed her husband into unconsciousness. . . . The raiders pointed to a half-gallon of wine found on the premises as justification." Another told of holiday whoopee-makers going blind, dying after drinking wood alcohol...
...such reasonable distance of any military camp, station, fort, post, yard, base, cantonment, training or mobilization place as the Secretary of War shall determine . . . for any person, corporation, partnership, or association to sell, supply, give or have in his or its possession any alcoholic liquors, including beer, ale, or wine...
...handled his orchestra with a gentle, paternal hand, appealed to his players' artistic consciences rather than attempting to dominate them. Under him, the Chicago Symphony developed a bouquet all its own: subtler than that of the hard-driven Eastern symphonies, it was more akin to the Rhine wine that he loved so well. For years the U.S. music limelight almost passed him by. But when, on one of its rare tours, the finely balanced Chicago Symphony gave a concert in Manhattan in 1940, critics rated Frederick Stock among the world's greatest...
...Castle of Kings in Cracow the Germans have demolished the statue of Tadeusz Kosciuszko, who fought beside George Washington. In Warsaw the ghetto boundaries are squeezed tighter each month as more dead are carried out. Food supplies are now one-quarter of what they were before 1939. The Fukier wine cellar no longer has its miod (old fermented honey). The Germans have left only black crusts of bread for Poles and there is no longer bigos, brewed of wild game and cabbage...