Word: wining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lived upon women and wine...
Topics during the first week of his column (The Totem Pole), syndicated by United Features: a Chinese restaurant "ploplietor" who gives tips on Tiger Bone Wine; a waiter philosophizing on John D. Rockefeller's money worries ; an original account of how General Sherman coined the phrase "War is Hell...
...Adams Wine Hurdles...
Once the Philharmonic had to keep careful count of expenditures such as 19? for wine for a lady soloist, but today it operates on a $1,000,000 budget. Since its merger in 1928 with the New York Symphony, it has a virtual monopoly of Manhattan's symphony concerts. But its audiences have fallen off since Maestro Arturo Toscanini left the orchestra in 1936. "The Old Man" well earned his $50,000 a year by his hard riding of the Philharmonic, which was then as fast and tautnerved as a fine race horse. Regular conductor now is a lightweight...
Arsenic and Old Lace. The merry-macabre carryings-on of two nice old ladies with a weakness for adding a lethal dash to their elderberry wine...