Word: wining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though it may have lost excitement with the years, The Spiral Staircase is still a charming thriller. Along with banging shutters, shadowy figures, unexplained noises, taps on the window, a wine cellar, and doors that open and close by themselves, there occur upwards of half a dozen murders...
...elation broke out all over the bridge. Shiaty. beaming with pride, called: "You happy, Captain?" Said Coppola: "Ten hours! In the 30 years I've been going through the canal, this is the fastest transit. The last trip took 18 hours, and the French pilot had so much wine that we had to keep him awake with coffee. I'm glad they're gone, these foreigners." "We don't need them," said Shiaty. "They won't be back." Then he shook hands with the captain and headed down the gangway to the pilot boat...
...Rose found just the thing to provide a handsome frame for his bride, onetime Movie Beauty Joyce Mathews: a 40-room, $430,000 whitestone mansion in Manhattan. Said Billy: "We'll only use about a dozen rooms to live in. Some of the 40 are servants' rooms, wine cellars, that kind of thing. It's not as frightening as it sounds...
...desert from the persecution of a corrupt priesthood in Jerusalem, holding in contempt the scribes and Pharisees (whom they called "Seekers After Smooth Things"), the Qumran community practiced baptism, chastity, community of goods. They wrote the ritual of a Messianic banquet with breaking of bread and blessing of wine, which Allegro boldly suggests may prefigure the Last Supper and Christian Communion. They expected the imminent end of the world and the coming of two Messiahs-a priest and a king of the Davidic line. Into the latter role, says Allegro, Jesus would fit perfectly-later to have the priestly messiahship...
...will try again next week.) Elsewhere, World fared better, e.g., a noisy jazz session in a monastery with Brother Boyce Brown on the sax. But the whole panorama was marred by languid Narrator Dave Garroway's overripe prose ("Filter music through the soul and it becomes the clear wine of communication...