Word: wineing
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...Wets waxed optimistic fortnight ago because President Hoover publicly pledged Dwight Whitney Morrow, Wet Republican Senatorial nominee in New Jersey, "every support . . . every confidence" in the November election, their enthusiasm must have been diminished last week by two White House events: 1) President Hoover had the 1,800 wine glasses belonging to his official home packed in barrels and shipped to storage; 2) he returned vigorously to his old thesis that Prohibition is only one of many important elements in the general crime situation, boldly defied a move by Congress to reduce the appropriation for and thus limit the scope...
...Morrow was reading the story of Hippoclides (chapter CXXVI through CXXIX) which describes the contest Clisthenes, tyrant of Sicyon, held to choose a husband for his daughter Agarista. After a year of trial, he preferred young Hippoclides of Athens, but on the evening of the choice, Hippoclides drank wine, danced upside down on a table, disgusted Clisthenes who cried: ''You have danced away your wife!" "Hippoclides cares not," said Hippoclides...
...yellowish-white liquid which, as Japanese scientists ingeniously say "stands midway between wine and beer." Usual alcoholic strength 12 to 15%. The 60,000,000 Japanese drink 150,000,000 gallons of sakė yearly. Like gin, sakė contains a dash of glycerin...
...France, wine-tasters sip wines, let their tongues tell them whether the fluid is bound for a plebian carafe or a gentleman's cellar. Were it not for whiskey-tasters England's famed blenders would be unable to produce a uniformly good product year in, year out. On equally skilled men depends the fact that all vermilion dyes are uniform, that azure satins are azure. But foibles of the color-matcher's eyes, which tire quickly, make them expensive to their employers...
Dizzying America. Brazilian Ambassador S. Gurgél do Amaral gave President-elect Prestes his final send-off from Washington with a banquet of 300 guests brilliantly staged in the Pan-American Union's imposing "Hall of the Americas." Although he had every legal right to serve wine the Ambassador refrained "at the request of Senhor Prestes" and "as a special courtesy to President Hoover...