Word: wining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...says, "seem to forget that according to the New Testament, thousands of followers were attracted to Christ by what would today be considered undignified miracles-undignified acts of healing. Can you imagine the average church board being asked to approve such miracles as the turning of water into wine, or feeding the multitude on two fishes and five loaves of bread?" One of the chief weaknesses of church boards, according to Adman Pleuthner, is that they have too many bankers, lawyers, doctors and retired businessmen and too few "sales managers, advertising men, and active business executives...
...brother monks in the monastery chapel. Each sleeps some seven hours-half in the evening and half in the early morning. The two daily meals, silently delivered to each house by a lay brother, make a frugal diet: rice or beans, eggs or fish, fruit, bread and water or wine is the main meal. From September to Easter the second meal consists only of bread and water...
Elected to honorary membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters: India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Novelists Andre Gide and Ignazio (Bread and Wine) Silone, Historian Arnold Toynbee...
...rebellious young intellectuals, it was the resolute opposite of Victorianism. Against Mrs. Grundy's boned corset it set the languid flow of an Aubrey Beardsley tunic. It opposed ice-water morality with the dreggy wine of French "realism." It countered convention with Oscar Wildeish witticisms ("Where is the pleasure of having parents if you may not disobey them"). For common sense it substituted shamelessly overgrown verbiage (" 'Tears, little one,' I said. 'See how they swim like whitebait in the fish-pools of your eyes...
...years as Hoppy had changed him. He had stopped drinking, except for an occasional glass of champagne or a little white wine & soda, a drinking regimen he still faithfully follows. He had met and married his fifth and present wife-a pretty, blonde exactress named Grace Bradley, who stayed with him when the going was toughest and converted him into the most faithful of one-woman men. And as far as the public was concerned, he had virtually assumed a new identity-that of Hopalong Cassidy...