Word: beer
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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...
...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...
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...
...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...
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...