Word: wined
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Wine, wine, wine...
Luks's paintings had more force than finesse; he knew the niceties of beer, bourbon, wine and cheese better than those of art, "It's in you or it isn't," he would shout when the discussion got around to painting techniques. "Who taught Shakespeare technique? Or Rembrandt? Or George Luks...
...been as comforting as a letter from home. Since its first issue in October 1887, the Herald has also been a comforting and legendary outpost for a legion of freewheeling roistering U.S. newsmen who worked there while they saw Paris-and later filled a dozen books with their nostalgic, wine-ripened memories. But the Herald Tribune has never found it easy to keep its 62-year-old outpost victualed and supplied. Its circulation, once up to 35,000, was down to 10,000 in 1939. After the Germans took Paris, the Herald suspended...
...Yugoslav crowd spread quickly through Gorizia's shops, cafes, bars and restaurants, filled their shopping bags with food, wine, stockings, towels, lipsticks and medical supplies. Yugoslav housewives exhausted the supply of brooms in a matter of minutes. In a sidewalk cafe, one elderly Yugoslav said: "This is the first real coffee I have had in three years. I must drink it slowly, or it will poison...
...capacity had been cut from 2,200 to 1.513 to provide larger cabins and airy, well-lighted public rooms. Among the new features: a blossom-stuffed conservatory, a mural-lined children's dining-room, a small music salon where traveling musicians can practice. In the hold, to dine & wine the passengers on the six-day crossing, were eight tons of prime beef, 60,000 eggs, 5,000 bottles of champagne...