Word: wineing
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...Primo de Rivera, Marquis de Estella, Premier of Spain, with "a figure like a Bartlett pear," with a fondness for ladies: "In demanding a rigid press censorship for Spain, I last week remarked: 'I have a number of vices and weaknesses which I never attempted to hide, but wine is not one of them.' Also, the news came out last week that King Alfonso will be unable to carry out the Holy Week custom of pardoning a murderer, for the simple reason that there is no one in Spain awaiting execution. It is well known that...
...same day, in New York, Augustus Noble Hand, learned Judge of the U. S. District Court made a ruling. Ten barrels of grape-juice once reposed in the cellar of one Mrs. Josephine Maltone; a provident Nature turned them into a goodly wine with a 13% "kick." They were seized by Federal authorities, legally, Judge Hand held. He ruled: "Possession of grape juice for home use . . . becomes unlawful . . . whenever the liquid becomes intoxicating, whether through natural fermentation or otherwise." Thus he sternly interpreted the paragraph of the Volstead Act that states that a householder needs no permit and cannot...
...boys who comprise the gangs have to undergo rigorous initiations before being qualified for membership. In one of the more exclusive gangs initiates, usually aged about nine, have to drink twelve glasses of dago-red wine and have a revolver pressed into their temples while they take the pledge. Another gang demands that all members swear vengeance upon anyone who shall wrong a fellow constituent-an oath which is carried...
...opening verse: Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine, and there are more than hints of more. Young Uldine, with her shiny scrubbed face, has been quoted as saying that flappers do not get their flapper ways from the Bible...
...Palmerston shocked England by opposing compulsory chapel at Cambridge. "Is it either essential or expedient that young men should be compelled to rush from their beds every morning to prayers, unwashed, unshaved, and half dressed; or, in the evening, from their wine to chapel, and from chapel back again to their wine...