Word: wineing
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...dealer in "putrid books for the putrid minded" is precisely the same in the eyes of Mr. Sterling as a dealer who sells typhus-filled milk. Both are to be held responsible. There are tea-tasters and there were wine-tasters; every book seller must now become his own book taster. A round sum might induce a poetaster to prostitute his art in the service of Boston. When it was suggested that some booksellers might find difficulty in keeping peace with the thirty books that are being published each day Mr. Sterling, even though he knows little of fifteen minute...
...presentation of his ritual. This congregation may sit during certain prayers; that one may stand. This one may read aloud; that one may read silently. To this congregation the Holy Communion may be merely a symbolic ceremony, to that one a sacrament suffused with almost Roman Catholic mysticism. The wine and unleavened bread used during the Holy Communion to one congregation will represent Blood & Body only for the few minutes of the service, to another congregation they remain Blood & Body forever after consecration (the Roman Catholic tenet). Those Protestant Episcopalians (in England members of the Church of England) who desire...
...Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration of Independence would have given the $500,000 to establish breweries and plant vineyards for production of light wine and beer. He believed that would conquer whiskey, which, he said, killed half the population in his day and ruined their families. It wasn't as bad as bootleg whiskey and killed slowly, if surely...
...Association Against the Prohibition Amendment pointed out that Mr. Kresge's stores sell wine kegs, wine presses, decanters, cocktail shakers and glasses, bottling and corking machines...
...appeared that Carol's valet, knowing his master's fiery temper, had concealed all knowledge of the theft. He had, two weeks previously, he said, been accosted on the street by an extraordinarily goodlooking young woman. She had invited him to dine and presumably to wine. He accepted the invitation. . . . Next morning, the valet continued, he woke up with a bad headache to discover that the correspondence, including his own, was gone. His letters were subsequently returned, except one which contained the names of people who had visited the Prince at his Orne Villa...