Word: wined
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Truth. "[After signing an agreement to spy on the Americans], I was led out of the building, and left in a very friendly manner in front of the tram stop . . . Got home, washed, opened a can of sausage with some red wine, and went...
...good salesman, Gallostra loved tall stories and long draughts of golden Manzanilla wine; he made friends with Spanish refugees as well as with Franco-loving aristocrats in the new world. In Mexico, officially registered as a "tourist," Gallostra granted Spanish visas, even lent money to Mexicans and to resident and refugee Spaniards who wanted to visit Spain (and whose names weren't on the Franco blacklist). He dreamed and labored for the day when Mexico would break relations with the impotent republican exile regime and recognize Franco Spain. He got many anonymous telephone calls threatening him with death...
...into the house of U.S. Commercial Attache Edward Krause. The little fat one, "le petit gros," forced the Krauses into a bedroom at the point of a gun while his lanky partner, le grand mince," ransacked the apartment. But afterwards they settled down with their victims over some Alsatian wine and slices of cold steak for a sociable chat. Little Fatty even returned Mrs. Krause's engagement ring. "Keep it, Madame," he said magnanimously. "It is too small...
...growing informality on the air was soon matched by excessive informality off it. Most announcers in the early days were temperamental; some were habitually late to work, and others had trouble with wine and women. Godfrey scored high in all departments. Despite his growing popularity with the listeners, he was finally fired...
Juan Gris was an artist who earned respect, if not popularity. His severely cubist paintings, on exhibition in a Manhattan gallery last week, were mostly classics of their kind. Gris's favorite props-wine bottles, clay pipes, books, newspapers and guitars-were crowded into compositions as slick and tight as nylon stockings. They were neither completely representational nor completely abstract, for Gris believed the two elements were like the warp and woof in weaving, inseparable...