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Word: beer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the Norwegian Government provided unlimited beer and unstinted sausages, the hilarity of the occasion became marked, though dependable, philosophical Norwegian temperaments precluded the occurrence of actual riots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORWAY: Royal Wedding | 3/25/1929 | See Source »

...long and long and longer than long or longer, three biscuits small not tall but small, I held and yelled and held the notion not nationally, but notionally that Gertrude Stein, the Stein of Steins, not a beer stein, perhaps a holstein, was not real, unreal, really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 18, 1929 | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

There were two arresting works by a man named O. (for Otto) Soglow. One was a black and white study of a city street at nightfall. The casual silhouettes were expressive of simple, mundane destinies. Paris was an oil painting of a lugubrious couple and a stein of beer. The malty futility of a sidewalk cafe existence is a familiar subject, but Satirist Soglow had handled it with distinction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Independents | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...Chicago brimmed with sentiment and sunshine. Peaceful was even the George ("Bugs") Moran booze-peddling depot on North Clark Street, masked as a garage of the S. M. C. Cartage Co., where lolled six underworldlings, waiting for their breakfast coffee to cook. A seventh, in overalls, tinkered with a beer vat on a truck. Two of the gang drifted aimlessly into the front office where ink wells stood dusty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Chicago's Record | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

Harvard 3, Lincoln's Inn Society 2: G. T. Francis ocC defeated Gregg (LIS), 12-15, 18-15, 15-11, 16-15; Beer (LIS) defeated E. P. Gunn '30, 16-17, 15-12, 13-15, 15-11, 15-7; H. G. Meyer '30 defeated Breed (LIS), 15-12, 12-15, 17-16, 15-12; Stone (LIS) defeated N. F. Glidden '31 by default; E. M. Shelton '31 defeated Stewart...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boston Team Downs Harvard Racquetmen in Semi-Finals of National Tourney--Team B Wins Massachusetts Title | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

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