Word: alee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Donohue, "but the dying out of the fraternities and the oncome of Prohibition have done away with most of the old time spirit of fun. Why, in the old days the lads would drink two or three quarts of champagno and a few bottles of real heavy P. B. ale and then go out and have a great time. You know it's only ten years since the old tradition of Bloody Monday passed away. That was a great old Freshman tradition. On the first Monday of October the fellows would gather in the square. Someone would knock off another...
...Palmer Mellen, young New Yorker who stroked the Oxford crew that won in 1923. Puzzled by the continued failure of their boat, old Oxonians last week fell back on the suggestion of feeding the oarsmen more than their usual rations of a pint and a half of ale and a glass of port daily for a month before the race, to reduce their "conviction of inferiority...
...return of beer not only stirred the nation's economic interest but raised a tangle of legal questions for definitive answers to which President Roosevelt had to look to the Supreme Court. Major paradox: the new law assumes that 3.2% beer is no more intoxicating than ginger ale, yet the Federal Government stands pledged to protect from importations any State that assumes otherwise. A brewer in a Wet State may start to ship his product through a Dry State to another Wet State, only to have the Dry State confiscate his freight as intoxicating and call upon the Federal...
Greatest beer city by reason of its fame was Milwaukee, and great was the beerage thereof-but 13 years have taken their toll. The Pabsts like the Busches stood by to let Prohibition pass. Fred Pabst turned to cheese, ginger ale. near beer, pop. While he was doing so a chemist, Harris Perlstein. in Chicago picked up an old brewery and started to make malt syrup in a bigger and more profitable way than the ex-brewers. "Blue Ribbon" was Pabst's beer and Perlstein took '"Blue Ribbon'' for his syrup. Pabst sued and lost...
...that principle of more general application: "Ale, man ale's the stuff to drink...