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...late Bishop Brent, of New York State, and a different scene. I was with Major General Henry C. Corbin on the Benguet road going from Baguio to Manila in an army (Doherty) wagon. At noon we outspanned for luncheon. Smoking in the shade after chicken and ham and iced wine, we descried an ass coming up the steep ascent with a dusty figure of a man plodding beside the beast. "Those squaw men disgrace America in the Philippines," said the General. "Hundreds of 'em swinging 'round and living off native women. No American soldiers should be discharged until...
...Harry Elstner Talbott, dowager of Dayton, Ohio, energetic patroness-manager of Dayton's famed Westminster Choir, now on European concert tour ,TIME, March 25), arose from her chair ast week in Prague to reply to a toast which Prague Mayor Baxa had drunk to he choir in clear Czechoslovakian wine. Said she: "We are patriotic Americans. We don't drink, but thank you just the same." The Westminster Choir-singers are not supposed to use tobacco, either...
...once for heat and cookery. Eating, however, was always treated as a subordinate and incidental business, deserving no fixed time, no dishes, nor the setting of a table. The peasants of the East, the monks of Southern monasteries, live chiefly on bread and fruit, relished with a little wine; and Sophocles, in spite of Cambridge and America, was to the last a peasant and a monk. Such simple nutriments best fitted his constitution, for "they found their acquaintance there...
...Imported Wine From Corinth...
...taste was more than usually sensitive, kept fine and discriminating by the restraint in which he held it. Indeed, all his senses, except sight, were acute. The wine he drank was the delicate unresinated Greek wine,--Corinthian, or Chian, or Cyprian; the amount of water to be mixed with each being carefully debated and employed. Each winter a cask was sent him from a special vineyard on the heights of Corinth, and occasioned something like a general rejoicing in Cambridge, so widely were its flavourous contents distributed...