Word: alee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would wander along the beach, picking shells and tossing pebbles in the ocean, or telling fairy tales to the children. He never worked. In the fishing boats he was an awkward hand, and let them alone, but in the pub at evening a grand man for a pot of ale and a wild story of the foreign lands. They would sit and talk about his quiet manner and his witty speech, and why, do you think, he should be coming to these islands?--long after he had retired for the night. And they never dreamed that while they talked...
Miss Gulliver Travels gives a number of actors the opportunity of dressing up in oldtimey costumes and smacking their lips over some colored water which is supposed to be bourbon and ale. It relates the adventures of a troupe of mummers who barnstorm the U. S. circa 1811. Big scene occurs when they give Romeo and Juliet in Washington, D. C. before President James Madison. Here the reunited lovers score a triumph not repeated by Miss Gulliver Travels...
...John Hays Hammond was the last to arrive. The committee's other four members?Admiral Hugh Rodman (retired), Assistant Secretary of the Navy Jahncke, Undersecretary of State Castle and Eliot Wadsworth?elected him chairman. The five White House investigators, closeted in a private room, drank "Black Cows" (dark ginger ale and cream) as they pored over documents and records brought from the State & Navy Departments. President Hoover had limited their field of investigation, for they were only "to examine the accuracy of fact" in the Gardiner statement and not go "into his opinions or conclusions nor into budgetary or general...
...Good Companions was turned into a play simply by selecting the best scenes -16 of them-and putting them on the stage with over 100 actors. To people who had not read the book, it seemed episodic, sketchy. But sometimes the play catches a cosy, pleasantly pipe-&-ale sort of English atmosphere. There are two fairish songs. "Going Home" and "Tripping Round the Corner," and a series of musical interludes between the fast-moving scenes. It is probably because the piece is advertised as "Dickensy" that most of the players overact atrociously. George Carney, new to Manhattan, is earthy, rugged...
...going to Lipton's. The best shop in town for Irish Bacon." He opened shop after shop until he built a chain of some 600. In 1885 he began specializing in tea, developed his own plantations in Ceylon. His interests widened to include candy shops in London, ginger ale plants in Ireland, a slaughter house in Chicago. In 1898 his enterprise was incorporated, his fortune estimated at $50,000,000. His motto: "Never take a partner." When he was made a baronet in 1902, this changed to "Labor Omnia Vincit" ("Work conquers all") beneath a coat of arms with...