Word: wineing
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...honor. Prancing horses and gleaming cars fill Athens as the rich thunder by in their burnished armor and waving plumes. Merchants and students, soldiers and athletes and maidens tossing flower-petals crowd the streets. The dry air is full of sunshine and the smell of flowers and wine-brimming libations to the god Dionysus...
Life quickens in an ectasy of timbrels and dancing. In the great theatre of the Wine God slaves begin to arrive with pillows to await their masters. Behind the scene carpenters are shouting angrily. Euripides, one of the competitors in the play contest, has invented some new stage machinery and sound effects that don't work properly. The audience begins to arrive and the great citizens reclaim their pillows. White-robed thousands stream in to fill the amphitheater row by row up to the top. At last a trumpet blows, the roar of sound fades into silence--and Medea begins...
...cancer of the liver and he caught a fatal cold standing in the rain at Clara Schumann's grave. On his death bed he spoke little, because his false teeth kept slipping. His last words were "Ja, das ist schon." His reference was to some wine that a friend had sent...
...been designed by Producer Carroll six years ago. Reprinted many times, the statement was never challenged until last week when the constabulary, perhaps embarrassed by being so closely connected with a gentleman once jailed for presenting a nude chorus girl in a bathtub of wine, insisted that their gaudy jackets had really been designed by none other than their commandant, bristle-haired Col. Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf himself...
...Philippe, of Napoleon III, of the Franco-Prussian war, of the French foreign policy that led to that war, of M. Thiers and the Third Republic, of the Paris Commune, of the changing status of women through all this time. He also expatiates upon the qualities of French soil, wine and scenery in the different provinces surrounding Pargny, which is on the River Aisne. All this gives The Iron Mother, which might have been just another story of a dominating female, a salty, Gallic flavor, which will take U. S. readers into the atmosphere of a culture that...