Word: alee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shows a massive nurse slouched by a fire while her patient struggles in bed. The legend: ". . . humors of a hired Nurse who among other attractions likes a drop of comfort . . . stamps about the chamber like a horse in a boat-slops you as you lie with scalding possets [milk & ale] ... falls into a dead sleep the moment before you want her, and then snores you down when you call...
...while he kept his promise, and contented himself drinking ale with Gaffer Sitherthwick and John Willie Braithwaite in The Spread Eagle and with explaining the mysteries of politics to a delightful collie bitch (who could talk). Then war caught up with Sam. As an auxiliary constable, with the help of an affectionate hound and a length of lead pipe, he caught two Nazi spies; later he felt forced to use his forbidden talent once again, to save England. In the course of that adventure he had to talk to Hitler ("Heil you!" said Sam, "Heil me!" Adolf replied) and, before...
Edward Arnold is hearty and his usual vigorous self as "Black Daniel" Webster, who would rather pitch horse-shoes and sip New Bedford ale than bother with politics. His climactic speech to the jury of despised Americans, far longer than the length of speeches movie audiences are generally supposed to go for, is a beautifully expressive bit of sustained emotion...
Three-Ring Time had no sooner started than NBC, according to Mr. Weber, exerted its options on ten of the 14 stations for the half-hour when the program was being carried; then, opportunely relaxing a tacit rule against beer and ale advertising, announced that it would carry Three-Ring Time. In December six of the ten stations on which the program had started for Mutual were among those carrying it for NBC Blue...
Come down to Yale at football time, at football time, at football time; Come down to Yale at football time (it isn't far from Vassar) And you will wander hand in hand with someone else's roommate, and Will drink a pail of Mory's ale (and oh, so near to Vassar...