Word: wining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five hours of hard work to create the sound that was heard for less than 30 seconds on the air. The sound consisted of a ticking metronome, tom-tom beats, bubbling water, air hose, cow moo, boing! (two types), oscillator, dripping water (two types) and three kinds of wine glasses clicking against each other. Judiciously blended and recorded on tape, the effect was still not quite right. Then the tape was played backward with a little echo added. That did it. The sound depicted the manufacturing of babies in the radio version of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World...
After being turned away from the Assembly proceedings for lack of a visitor's card, chunky young (35) Poujade blandly made his way into the Deputies' lounge, stepped up to the bar and ordered a glass of wine. At the other end of the bar, a knot of Socialists glowered at this invasion of a private precinct. One of them put down his glass and growled: "All right, Monsieur Poujade. Now, repeat that we are all rotten and bought...
Pierre Poujade downed his wine and quickly departed...
Benjamin Franklin once expressed the humorous hope that, by being embalmed in wine, he might come to life in the future "and observe the state of America . . . my dear country." Had his wish been fulfilled, Old Printer Franklin would have found America churning out printed matter beyond his wildest dreams (or fears). At present, he would have found a good deal of that printed matter devoted to himself, for this month marks the 250th anniversary of his birth. Among the month's Franklin literature...
...talked to one girl, and sipped heady wine from far-away New York State in the intimate surroundings of Cronin's Monday night, when the electricity went out on Mount Auburn St. from 8:15 until 10:30 p.m. Tom Cronin lights candles (above) for the festivities...