Word: wining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...give me no home. No home but park benches and gutters and all-night motion picture houses full of sailors. No home but pinball machines and erotica shelves and occasional wine cellars, and a night in jail...
...lawyer then went to work on settling the FTC complaint. Lazarus, said young Goldfine, made several trips to Washington, where he entertained FTC people "at least a couple of times a week." Concluded Mack Goldfine: "You can't see people a couple of times a week and wine and dine them without expecting to get at least some consideration...
...first big step on the road to the depths of deg-re-day-I say first-medicinal wine from a teaspoon, then-beer from a bottle! And the next thing you know, your son is playin' fer money in a pinchback suit. And list'nin' to some big out-a-town Jasper hearin' him tell about horse-race gamblin'. Not a wholesome trot tin' race. No! But a race where they set down right on the horse! Like to see some stuck-up Jockey-boy settin' on Dan Patch? . . . Trouble...
...best excuse for retelling a myth is to be unfaithful to it. When Joyce reworked the Odyssey, turning Ulysses into the Jew Leopold Bloom and the wine-dark sea into Dublin, the structure came from the past but the sense of it was all in the present-which is the essence of parable. To re-create the past as past is merely archaeology or entertainment, or both. Author Mary (The Last of the Wine) Renault's The King Must Die (a midsummer Book-of-the-Month Club choice) is both, but she is a better literary archaeologist than...
...Cover) Cultivation comes first, the proper care of the body -From the well-tended vine comes the most exquisite wine...