Word: ales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Saturday night and the members of the House had drained the last drops of beer & ale in their Restaurant. But they did not get away from Washington that night, thanks to the Senate. In that august chamber bitter legislative rivalries at the last minute thwarted the Administration's best plans for a quick adjournment. Ohio's Bulkley started the tangle with a measure for minor amendments to the Banking Act-1933. Washington's Dill and Michigan's Couzens leaped in with a measure to apply collective bargaining to the railroads and their workers. Louisiana...
Canada Strongest has nothing whatever to do with a British Dominion or ginger ale. A canada is a Spanish dingle. Canada Strongest is a narrow valley named for a Bolivian soccer team, about 15 mi. northeast of Fort Ballivian in the Gran Chaco. There last week nearly 100,000 men of the armies of Bolivia and Paraguay were concentrated for what each hoped would be the deciding battle of their...
Oldest, strangest and most patrician indoor court game is court-tennis, played with curved rackets shaped like little shovels, and hard, heavy balls. During the 16th Century, the game was so popular that people said there were more court-tennis players in Paris than ale-drinkers in England. One Englishman, Henry VIII, liked it so much that he had a court, with benches in the dedans (netted opening in the wall) for his courtiers, built into Hampton Court. Court-tennis has preserved its prestige at the price of its popularity. Henry VIII's benches are still in existence...
Beer flowed legally in the dining halls yesterday for the first time in over 100 years. Two brands of beer and one of ale were offered to students over 21, seated at special tables. The Business School and Medical School were deprived however of the privilege because the University has not as yet procured a license for them...
...University has on hand sixteen cases of ale and forty cases of beer to supply the Houses...