Word: alee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like many a Yorkshireman, he is a Methodist and pledged to temperance. But he is not stuffy about others' drinking, and has even been known to wax convivial on lime juice and ginger ale...
...Canvas, Ltd." dot ancient, weatherbeaten buildings. Marking the inner harbor entrance at the foot of Victoria Pier, a yellow-bricked sailors' memorial towers above the waterfront. Half a block away is the old Neptune Tavern (known from Singapore to the Cape of Good Hope for its "strong ale and pea soup"); nearby are other noted grog shops such as Joe Beef's and Liverpool House. Just around the corner there is a sailor's club where last season an average of 300 sailors a night were quartered...
...courses, amateur theatricals and interest group-projects. Within a recent week, the Common rooms played host to a forum on the contemporary English novel, another on the United Nations, a recital staged by the House music group, and the weekly play-reading session. Season this melange with the stout ale of the Deacon's traditional Nocturnal Collations (beerfests with a monocle) and spice with the Society for the Preservation of The Species and a savory offering...
...Finest in the East," members of the University Band decided yesterday, was their own sobriquet, and not to be extended, even by implication to the malt liquor brow manufactured by the Crofts Ale Company...
Murmurs of protest increased hourly as the distillery repeated the renowned six-da cheer, but substituted "crofts" for the crucial "Fight!" Driven desperate by repetition of the blurb, one brass artist began a substitute commercial featuring the theme; "bow wow wow... ELi-i-i-Ale...