Word: wining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bentley pulls up. "Good morning, Fred." "Good morning, sir." Evenings at 7 it brings him back. Occasionally there are guests-the close friends. Merula does her own cooking, and Alec is an expansive host. "I say, that plate's cracked!" "Oh dear, Guinness has boiled the wine again...
...failure to learn music, indecent behavior--talking in meetings without addressing the President--and too much eloquence were offenses which occasioned fines ranging from $.06 to $.25. Despite these curbs the young gentlemen managed to have a good time at every rehearsal, perhaps because they ended every meeting with wine or the mysterious Pierian Punch, still served at present meetings...
...Sodality's feasting debts stayed down during Prohibition, because, according to the minutes, they conscientiously drank ginger ale. The use of 100 proof ether instead of wine during the baptismal section of initiation also held the bills down, and knocked the neophytes...
...over the sunny water. The owner of the pension, Mademoiselle Zizi, has a rich and handsome young English lover named Eliot, who takes the children for rides in his blue-and-silver Rolls-Royce. Young Paul, the pension dishwasher, supplies the little Englishmen with assorted forbidden fruits-Gauloise cigarettes, wine dregs left in the glasses after a big luncheon, a rich vocabulary of French swear words. Poor, darling Mummy is still in the hospital-hurrah, hurrah...
Provider. In Cincinnati, James Hart Jr., in court for robbing a grocery, asked for clemency, told the judge that he had no job and his wife and children were hungry, was convicted of stealing $10 worth of beer and wine...