Word: wining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great, and the family archives were a source library in themselves. At Harvard Morison fell under the spell of Charles Haskins, Edward Channing and Albert Bushnell Hart. He wrote his first book, Life and Letters of Harrison Gray Otis, partly from the boxes of letters stored in the family wine cellar. But aside from the influence of his teachers and ancestors, there was also his love for the sea. It was almost inevitable, says one of his col leagues, that as "Parkman was the historian of the wilderness, so Morison should become the historian...
France's Jacques Villon, vintage 1875, is a case in point. On view at Manhattan's Lucien Goldschmidt bookstore last week was Villon's latest and perhaps greatest claim to a permanent bin in the wine cellar of art history. His new triumph: a $350-a-copy edition of Virgil's Eclogues, illustrated with 25 superb color lithographs...
...days after weighing anchor in the Gironde River, the crew of the cutter Lord Jim brought their craft up the Thames. All was well at last, with only one minor drawback-of all the bottles carefully laid away in Lord Jim's lockers, only ten still contained wine. "Ah, well," mused Guitarist de Castelbajac, as his captain faced London's vintners with somewhat empty hands, "some wine, it just does not travel...
...keep in suing trim, Gina last year got entangled in suits involving 1) ownership of a house, 2) a Turin vermouth firm (for using her picture to advertise its wine), 3) a radiologist (who charged that Gina had welched on a 15,000 lire X-ray bill...
...room to wring a finished script out of him. People loved him as a sort of raffish reproach to the world of respectability, a reprobate innocent. He got away with almost anything. The story goes that as an honored guest for an Oxford poetry society which served only select wines, Thomas asked for a jug of beer at the outset, cheerfully poured each successive vintage wine into the same jug and mixed it up with his teaspoon...