Word: ales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lawrence, surrounded by sycophants, went to Mallorca to die. Suppose Noel Coward, vacationing, became his neighbor. What would happen? On this lively supposition Author Winter has written a tale that is blurbed as another South Wind but is more like Somerset Maugham's spiteful Cakes and Ale...
...noisy voice, complain of her garish clothes, for he would never notice these defects. To him she was perfect; they were as easy in each other's company as the seaman after a long voyage was easy with the fat doxy waiting for him in the Wapping ale-house...
Turning up unwashed and unshaved in Baltimore after being marooned in a Pittsburgh hotel, General Hugh S. Johnson told how he had lived for two days on beer and seltzer water, how one woman guest had taken a bath in three cases of ginger ale. Said he: "It was the most complete paralysis of a large city since the San Francisco fire...
...Harvard student of two hundred years ago was fed in a manner closely resembling that of the English colleges, the "buttery" books reveal. Close to the main dining hall there was a pantry, managed by the butler, where students might order extra or special portions of choose, ale, butter, bread, jam, and the like, if they desired. When such an order was filled, the butler marked the purchase against the student's name listed on a record sheet tacked to the wall. Many of these record sheets are bound up in the "buttery" ledger...
Departmental Ditties were dashed off in India and printed by Cub Reporter Kipling himself in spare moments, then sold by postcard solicitation to Pukka Sahibs with an ease which made Salesman Kipling scoff contemptuously in later years when fashionable publishers tried to cry into his ale about the "risks" they say they take. He took his own risks by striking out around the world, landing in California and being turned down by editors all the way across the U. S. and back to England. Then suddenly his work caught on and from a deep trunk crammed with Indian yarns...