Word: wineing
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...world sales, quickening the flow of royalty checks to Switzerland where Friends Ludwig and Remarque bank their money in gold francs. "The night of the public burning of the books," said Author Ludwig. "I invited my friend, Erich Maria Remarque, to drink with me. We opened our oldest Rhine wine, turned on the radio, heard the flames crackling, heard the speeches of the Hitler spokesmen-and drank to the future...
...Wine is the gentleman's drink, and the Senior will drink it, till he is anaesthetized sufficiently for the gin. Then, perhaps, he will speak, to a trusted fellow, of the one short year before he gets out of the damned place, God-willing, graduates...
...Acid for Wine. An expert chemist's advice for aging wine rapidly: "All young wine contains cream of tartar and tartaric acid. It usually requires several years of aging for the precipitation of excess tartar during the process of fermentation, and after the conclusion thereof. ... By addition of calcium malate in proper proportions to wine, even when young, and agitating it for a short time, any proportion of tartaric acid desired can be removed, leaving the malic acid to replace the natural constituent of grapes...
...process is feasible because synthetic chemistry has cheapened the manufacture of malic acid, the substance which gives apples their flavor. Dr. Charles Raymond Downs, Manhattan consulting chemist who presented the wine-aging idea, passes a mixture of air and benzene over a catalyst to get maleic acid. Other action turns the maleic to malic acid, which combines with calcium to form the desired calcium malate...
...twilight comes a glimpse, through the drawn shades, of the Bulfinch drawing rooms, and of the scrubbed and shining faces of the matrons, filled with the light of the Boston Transcript. Closed to the Boston, which is now Greater, is a world, a complete world, sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and -- sans End. Turn down an empty Glass! Or so we read in the magazines...