Word: wineing
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...Chamber quieted he continued: "Any attempt to inculcate hostility to the glorious wines of France is more than deplorable and I, as a Minister and representative of the Government, disavow them. I am about to take steps either to ban the school manuals, into which such heretical doctrine has been allowed to creep, or to have the publishers amend them in such a way as to restore to wine drinking its true character in the eyes ot school children. Wine should be one ot our national glories...
Originally the French Anti-Alcoholic League combatted not wine but spirits. But zeal for eliminating high-power drinks, to which most Frenchmen are opposed (in principle if not always in practice) has now spread to a campaign against wine (considered by the vast majority of Frenchmen a perfectly "natural," nourishing and beneficial drink...
...traitorous textbook" into which aspersions against wine have "crept " according to Deputy Barthe, is The Natural Sciences, a work containing the statement: "Cognac in one-centigram doses can kill a large...
...cognac is a spirit, not a wine, and as Barthe pointed out, the internationally great French scientist Pasteur (inventor of milk pasteurization) said definitively: "Wine is the most healthy and hygienic ot beverages...
...Toddy: fermented palm juice wine, not unlike Mexican pulque (cactus wine...