Word: winings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Holmes preserved the unregenerate spirit he confessed, at 27, to William James: "There are not infrequent times when a bottle of wine, a good dinner, a girl of some trivial sort can fill the hour for me." But that was not the whole of it. On the night of his 70th birthday he picked up his pen: "One learns from time an amiable latitude with regard to beliefs and tastes. Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. . . . Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth...
...Canada, which more than once in World War II has been a proving ground for measures later introduced by Washington.* Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King took steps to cut down drinking. He announced sharp reductions in the alcoholic content of beer and liquors-beer by 10%, wine by 20%, spirits by 30%. He also forbade all advertising of beer and liquors after a six weeks' adjustment period, asked for shorter selling hours in liquor stores...
...ordered in the name of total war (he talked of savings in manpower efficiency and scarce newsprint). But he also complained that Canadian thirst had increased since the war began: pre-war consumption of spirits had risen from 3,500,000 gallons yearly to almost 5,000,000; wine consumption had increased by nearly 1,000,000 gallons...
...doddering Ezequiel Chávez and post-reactionary González Martinez. At the same table were ex-Fascist José Vasconcelos, onetime Presidents Pascual Ortiz Rubio (his qualifications for entry: love poems scribbled in youth) and bull-necked Portes Gil. There was almost no talk of politics; the wine and the company prompted sublimer subjects...
...York and Pennsylvania (the cars will rush oil to New England); 2) WPB permission to build 300 tank trailer trucks, each of 4,000-gallon capacity; 3) Early assignment to oil service of some of the 26,000 cars now used to haul vegetable oils, chemicals, alcohol and wine...