Word: wined
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...election of 1922, recalls Coote, "was the first time the voters really had a crack at me-and that ended my political career." Ex-M.P. Coote became a foreign correspondent and later chief editorial writer for the Times; in 1942 he moved over to the Telegraph. A knowledgeable wine lover, he has written articles for both the Times and the Telegraph on wines, has also co-edited an anthology (Maxims and Reflections) from the writings and speeches of his close friend, Winston Churchill...
...gingerly through four glees, a canon, and a catch, accompanying its singing with stage actions such as shrugged shoulders and waving forefingers. This organization claims descent from the original Noblemen and Gentlemen's Catch Club (1761) which punished sour notes by making the offender drink a glass of wine. "It is this spirit," the present group's leaders note, "which the 'Adams House Catch Club' has attempted to recapture...
...harder. From Málaga to Zamora and from Murcia to Pamplona, thousands of black-robed, black-hooded men, carrying a cross in one hand, a torch in the other, formed endless Holy Week processions. Madrileños also pushed baby carriages loaded with infants, black bread, sausage and wine into the country for Easter picnics, saw the Castilian plateau in an almost forgotten dress. Since 1942 central Spain has been brown and barren with drought. Last week the plain was alive with white and yellow flowers; trees that had seemed dead last summer were budding again, and water sparkled...
Then, last week, Don Francisco struck another note. From Granada's gypsy dives to his upper story apartment he invited an accordion player, a tambourine player and two trumpeters. "My good fellows," he said, "make yourselves at home. For you there are comfortable beds, food, and all the wine you can drink, providing you do one thing: play your tunes loud as you can from...
...high points of the pilgrimage were the vigils in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. But by the third vigil, familiarity had so far bred irreverence in some of the company that they desecrated the shrine outright-bargaining with the Moslem merchants, "swilling [strong wine] till the bottles were empty." Some of the priests got into a wrangle over their turn to celebrate Mass, and the lay pilgrims were forced to intervene. And then there were those pilgrims who went about scratching their names on everything in sight, and hunting for souvenirs. Felix's own "irreproachable" collection of relics...