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...undivided freedom. That is the way I feel. I take my freedom straight. I am like little Johnny. His teacher asked him. "How do you spell straight?" He said. "S-T-R-A-I-G-H-T." The teacher then asked. "What does it mean?" He said. "Without ginger ale." That is the way I take my freedom. I take it without ginger ale. I take it straight. So I am for the Irish people, who want their united freedom...
...perhaps rule once entitled students taking final or midyear examinations to have a mug of ale at the end of hour. This sympathetic seems rather anomalous for the old Puritans who supposedly made it. Perhaps even they, despite their conviction that "all work and no play sends Jack to Heaven," had some unconscious qualms about the examination system...
...night, but the politicking via liquor and secret conference continued. Delegates and about half of Springfield mobbed the Sheraton lobby for free drinks and food supplied by the candidates. Peabody's bar dispensed the hard stuff for about five straight hours, but Kennedy limited his offering to coke, ginger ale, and Seven-Up, much to the dismay of several delegates...
...Malvolio, Thom Babe exhibits control far beyond refusing "cakes and ale." Dour and stern at the start, he convinces us that he has heard no bells at midnight; and so, when he breaks into smiles and puts on yellow stockings, the joke succeeds superbly...
Under the influence of a prodigious assortment of Christmas bottles-ginger wine, Irish whisky, Portuguese claret, South African sherry, rum, port, eggnog, "Pineapple Fortified" and ale-Sandra is provided with a bit of past for her future...