V.A.D. Volunteer Air Detachment.
Vaya! (Spanish) Go!
Vengo Jueves (Spanish)I come Thursday.
vermouth a sweet or dry, white fortified wine flavored with aromatic herbs, used in cocktails and as an aperitif.
veronica a move in which the matador holds a cape out and pivots slowly as the bull charges past it.
very Ritz very fancy.
Veuve Cliquot a brand of champagne.
vieux marc (French) literally, old dregs or grounds. An after-dinner drink.
W.H. Hudson William Henry Hudson (1841–1922), a writer raised in Argentina by American parents whose subjects include South America and England.
we that live by the sword shall perish by the sword paraphrase of Matthew 26:52.
white hands, wavy hair, white faces, grimacing, gesturing, talking a homosexual stereotype.
wicket a small window or opening, as for a bank teller or in a box office.
Would you mind opening it? Mike is too drunk too open his own beer bottle.
You . . . have given more than your life Jake has made what the Italian liaison colonel considers the ultimate sacrifice: he was castrated in battle.
You've been in the war This seems to imply that Bill is not a veteran, and yet he has referred to being in France at the end of the war; an apparent contradiction. Perhaps Bill was covering the war as a newspaper correspondent.
