Word: wined
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Gilbreth Jr. for their Treize à la douzaine (Cheaper by the Dozen). The prize, which is supposed to be 500 gold écus, was paid off this year in 500 ten-franc aluminum pieces, all in a spirit of high good humor. The Prix Rabelais (50 liters of Brouilly wine) went to H. P. Gassier, a cartoonist...
...curiously spotty film with an impressive performance by its fiery star and glimpses of the director at his raw, powerful best. It tells of a demented peasant woman who mistakes a strange passerby for a vision of St. Joseph. He sits silently while she babbles and drinks his wine until she falls into a stupor. When she finds herself pregnant, she is fanatically certain that she has been chosen for a holy birth. Scorned and humiliated by the villagers, thrown out of her cliff-dwelling by a grotesque beggar, she climbs into the mountains, where she bears her child alone...
...best of all World War II novels of infantry fighting, was New Zealander Guthrie Wilson's first novel, Brave Company, a book that most writers of war novels could read with profit. Briton Alexander Baron showed that he, too, understood his infantrymen in The Wine of Etna, a novel about British troops in Sicily...
...says, "seem to forget that according to the New Testament, thousands of followers were attracted to Christ by what would today be considered undignified miracles-undignified acts of healing. Can you imagine the average church board being asked to approve such miracles as the turning of water into wine, or feeding the multitude on two fishes and five loaves of bread?" One of the chief weaknesses of church boards, according to Adman Pleuthner, is that they have too many bankers, lawyers, doctors and retired businessmen and too few "sales managers, advertising men, and active business executives...
...brother monks in the monastery chapel. Each sleeps some seven hours-half in the evening and half in the early morning. The two daily meals, silently delivered to each house by a lay brother, make a frugal diet: rice or beans, eggs or fish, fruit, bread and water or wine is the main meal. From September to Easter the second meal consists only of bread and water...