Word: alee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sack and ale they had nourished: opening on Broadway in Shakespeare's Henry IV (TIME, May 20), England's Old Vic seemed lustily alive. But vodka was not quite their drink; and in Chekhov's Uncle Vanya last week the Old Vic did some noticeable stumbling...
...evening's first raid was on the Plymouth pub, the Tom Elliott. The Rev. Wilfred H. Mildon, a mild-appearing man, went in alone by the four-ale door (to the public bar) to establish a bridgehead. When he reappeared and gave the thumbs-up sign, all six parsons trooped in, 30-year-old Pastor Arthur Bird's black & white accordion braying deafeningly...
...Words & Ginger Ale. For ten days the six "Christian Commandos"-all hearty Methodist ministers-had been on an evangelizing pub-crawl in Plymouth. Their reception was not always as hearty as at the Tom Elliott. Said one of them: "Sometimes we're accompanied by a continual barrage of strong swearing, but Bird here plays the accordion so loud they can't make themselves heard...
...similar circumstances Chancellor of the Exchequer Gladstone drank eggnog; Disraeli, brandy & soda; and a grinning Churchill announced that he was not sure whether his amber-colored liquid was cider or ginger ale (he prefers brandy to either of them...
...appearance is the exact opposite of the common conception of a hangman; to see him in one of the local pubs drinking his pint of ale, one would think he was a farmer who had come to the village to sell his produce. One of his favorite jokes on meeting a person is to say, "What a lovely neck." I will never forget the shudder that went over me when he told me: "Ah, you are a large man, you would drop nicely." He told me one time that he was taught the trade by his father, who hanged himself...