Word: beer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Guard, part for customs, part especially for Canadian border; part for doubling or trebling present field force, increasing salaries to induce higher type men to apply for this responsible and hazardous work; part for more thorough, stringent surveillance of breweries and distilleries to prevent illegal distribution of high-powered beer and diversion of industrial alcohol; part for intensive, nation-wide education campaign, employing best talent to prepare accurate, striking posters and circulars emphasizing danger to individuals and to society of use of intoxicants, also the physical, economic, personal and social benefits of abstinence and prohibition, appealing to patriotic citizenship...
There are other possible changes besides the kind of modification, which the wets went. Modification may proceed in either of two directions. It may proceed in the direction of softening the law, permitting 2. 75 percent beer, which would please no one, or light wines and beers which are, as a matter of fact, intoxicating, or of putting the government in the business of selling liquor. On the other hand, it make take the form of stiffening the law, imprisoning where it now fines, and applying the penalties to purchasers as well as to sellers. The wets of the seaboard...
...Broadway-the garish and blazing Kurfursten-Damm-cruising crooks met honest, conventioning Hamburgers, quarreled, fought with guns and knives. It appeared that the shooting and knifing had begun-as such things will-with a wench, buxom Gretchen Schmaltz. Originally Fraulein Schmaltz appeared to have favored and sipped beer with a tuxedoed Ever Loyal. When he excused himself for a moment, Gretchen responded to the ogle of a dashing old Hamburger Journeyman, clapped his broad black hat upon her head, called for more beer and presently begged for one of the Guildsman's gold earrings. While they dawdled the crook...
...interesting to note that in the new residential "House" which is to be built, Harvard is returning to this old English college plan; but there is one feature of Dunster's building that we unfortunately cannot restore; the buttery, where College beer was dispensed, and about whose friendly "hatch" or Dutch door the students gathered to enjoy a social mug at "morning bever" and "afternoon bever", possibly between-times as well...
Today the round face of the "German Lloyd George" is not ruddy with noontime beer and midnight champagne, but pale. He may eat only sparingly of dietetic food prepared by a special cook; and every evening he is bundled off to early bed by an efficient, uncompromising trained nurse. Recently it has even been noticed that Dr. Stresemann's personal physician is always closeted with him privily for five or ten minutes before he makes a public appearance or speech of any kind. Intimates of the House of Stresemann profess to know that the doctor spends these five-minute...