Word: alee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days, not even an Englishman could like the ancients' sweet, flat brews. Actually, the first true dry beer came to the U.S. with immigrant Germans in the 1840s. In German fermentation tanks the yeast worked at the bottom of the brew rather than at the top, as in ale, thus producing the lighter, less alcoholic "lager," i.e., "stored" beer, that has become the U.S. favorite...
...railway station-"a kind of Strip-Jack-Naked. He's parted with everything, or they've taken it." In the 82 slaphappy and possibly autobiographical pages Thomas finished, the kid slides from one loony scrape to another, encumbered much of the way with a Bass ale bottle that has unaccountably got stuck fast on his finger...
...need for live models was Morland's excuse for every sort of extravagance. He kept a menagerie which included foxes, goats, hogs, monkeys and dormice. To get material for The Deserter, he commandeered a sergeant, drummer and soldier, plied them with ale and tobacco for two days. Morland sold well, but often he could not wait for purchasers to leave his studio before uttering three loud "huzzahs" and heading straight for the nearest pub. At the peak "of his career, Morland, only 28, found himself ?4,000 in debt. Morland's life became an unending struggle to keep...
...Cream & Ginger Ale. If everybody could be as happy as, say, Joan Crawford, Dr. Cooper would have much less work to do. Last week Cinemactress Crawford described life with her six-year-old dog Cliquot, a Harjes poodle. Cliquot, she says, was always happy when she was at the glamorous studios, like M-G-M and Warner Bros. But at Republic Pictures, a horse-opera factory, Cliquot was sad. "He chewed up a carpet," said Joan. "He swallowed 5½ yards of string. He usually eats white meat of chicken, ground sirloin, ice cream and ginger ale. He wears custom...
During the years in between, Noonan has seen and treated some exceptional athletes. He particularly remembers All-East end Loren MacKinney '42, who was involved in one of the greatest hoaxes over perpetrated on ale. In the Brown game in his junior year, MacKinney suffered a leg injury, making him a doubtful participant in the Yale contest. The trainers at Dillon worked overtime to enable him to play, but he appeared in New Haven on crutches the day before the game. The crutches were a clever device of Coach Dick Harlow to fool Yale, however, for MacKinney was physically...