Word: alee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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CAKES AND ALE--Maugham (Doubleday, Doran...
...Ginger ale and other soft drinks are the biggest sellers, closely followed by frankfurters. So far this year, the sale of frankfurters has tripled over the same time last year. A new process of cooking the frankfurters has been inaugurated, and arrangements have been made to do away with the trouble of having empty bottles lying on the ground and in the Stadium. All drinks will be served in paper cups, and no one will be permitted to take any bottles away from the stands...
Cakes and Ale: or The Skeleton in the Clipboard is a novel without a hero. Narrator is William Ashenden, middle-aged bachelor writer, through whose disillusioned eyes you see unfolded the story of Edward Drimeld and the lovely Rosie. When Edward Drimeld died his late-won position as Grand Old Man of English Letters was secure. His shrewd second wife wanted an official, respectably-mum-mifying biography, asked the popular novelist Alroy Rear to write it. But Ashenden was one of the few who knew anything about Driffield's early life. When Kear tried to pump him, Ashenden had reason...
Died. Heywood Cox Broun, 80, one-time printer (Broun, Green & Adams), onetime associate of Thomas McMullin & Co. (bottlers of Guiness stout and White Label bass ale), for the past ten years a Manhattan stockbroker (Reynolds, Fish & Co.), British-born father of Heywood Campbell Broun, colyumist for the New York Telegram and Socialist candidate for Congress; after a paralytic stroke, at St. Luke's Hospital, Manhattan. After some reflection Colyumist Broun wrote a colyum about his father. Excerpts...
...Town Council of the Royal Borough of Forfar assembled before a table studded with ale bottles to pass suitable resolutions, drink a health to the "first royal birth in Scotland for more than three centuries."* They decided that plebeian ale did not befit the occasion, spent the town's money for four bottles of Scotch whiskey which were instantly consumed...