Word: wineing
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...favor of a modification of the Volstead Act to permit the sale of beer and wine because: 1) the effect of prohibition has been to put an end to scientific temperance teaching; 2) it has resulted in increased drinking among young people; 3) it has discouraged the consumption of wine and beer and increased the demand for distilled liquors, which today are mostly poisonous; 4) it has brought about disrespect for all laws; 5) it is class legislation discriminating in favor of the rich; 6) it has increased intemperance...
...money now spent in a futile attempt at enforcement were added to the revenue we might have from beer and wine, and one-tenth of this sum were spent to educate the people in scientific temperance, it would be more effective toward the physical and moral well-being of our people...
...some months he has been under the care of Dr. John Weir, noted Scotch homeopathist, who is said to have "mercilessly cut down his usual diet," caused him to abandon "the two extremes of dining, soup and cigars," and restricted him to "four denicotinized cigarets per day" and no wine or spirits until dinner time ?all this because Edward has allegedly found himself "growing nervous...
...Milk. "There is plenty of wine in the country, and people drink it with their meals, but they usually spend their evenings in coffeehouses, drinking strong coffee and hot milk. They sit in coffeehouses for hours, settle all the questions that vex the world, and go to bed at night happy and satisfied...
...three miles wide and as high as a six-story building piled up in the Theiss River. The Hungarian army expended three-fourths of the stock of ammunition allowed to it under existing treaties in a vain effort to shoot up this veritable iceberg, which caused the famed Tokay wine region to suffer a flood loss of ten billion crowns ($100,000). Angry Hungarians ran about shrieking that the Roumanian Government had aggravated the floods by opening certain sluice gates in violation of the Treaty of the Trianon...