Word: wineing
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...literary controversy comparable to that between the Ancients and the Moderns is in the making, with the President of the Wesleyan Conference at London as the champion of prohibition, and Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, English novelist, taking the side of the temperate wine-bibbers. The eminent churchman decries the charge that complete abstinence will cut him off "from understanding all that is good to understand in Swift or Shakespeare". Sir Arthur, in reply, presents the total abstainer as imperfectly equipped either to create or appreciate high literature, because "high literature demands total manhood, of which teetotal manhood is obviously...
...continue in this character-building institution, this "fair Harvard"? Obtaining synthetic gin is no longer so difficult and clever a feat that those who accomplish it need show to the outside world how enlivening an effect gin has. No longer is it a truly remarkable achievement to get enough wine for boisterous merriment. Drunkard ness among students, while pitiable, is not a condition which is altered by weeping or preaching. As long as the attitude of the student body is one of making merry over sometimes truly funny antics of the tipsy ones, and as long as strong drink...
...trout streams. As for the lecturer himself, he has taken on the glow of eternal youth. If this palls, another switch will change the hall into a grey and gloomy cavern, lined with stalactites and stalagmites; and so on--endless changes, endless variation. Thus can we put our old wine in new bottles, and completely deceive the luckless undergraduate with a couple of dozen "mazdas...
...HussarsSpindler 2. Overture to "Mignon" Thomas 3. Waltz, "The Kiss" Arditi 4. Fantasia, "Tales of Hoffmann" Oflenbach 5. Finale of "Scheherazade" Rimsky-Korsakoff 6. Valse Triste Sibelius 7. German Dance, Ride" "The Sleigh Mozart 8. Ride of the Valkyries Wagner 9. Selection, "The Fortune Teller" Herbert 10. Waltz, "Wine, Woman and Song" Strauss 11. March, "Semper Fidelis" Sousa
...Strauss' famous "Wine, Woman and Song", there were passages when the insistence on the rhythm disturbed the smooth flowing tone of the melody so associated with Strauss' waltzes. The same tightened, driving feeling came out in the first and last movements of Bizet's "L'Arlesienne", but the second movement was beautifully handled. On the whole, the orchestra has excellent strings and wood-winds, but the horns and brasses might be improved, and a more easy, smooth and unified spirit in rendition should be worked...