Word: beer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Replogles. When the Customs inspector came through, Mr. Ziegfeld said yes, he had no alcoholics. The Replogles said no, they had none either. Dr. Wagner, however, spoke up and admitted he had some whiskey left in a bottle. The "Roamer's" porter confessed he had a bottle of beer...
Federal Agents. To the railroad station went newsmen, photographers, city officials. They met an incoming train. On board was George E. ("Hardboiled") Golding, "ace" of the Federal Prohibition Bureau, and eight assistants. Big, bespectacled Mr. Golding and his staff had recently combatted Chicago beer-runners with their own methods of shooting and blackjacking. This bravura policy is said to have caused Mr. Golding's removal. Previous to Chicago, he had operated in Cleveland, where he secured 112 indictments. The Golding fame rests largely on the Golding flair for secrecy. But never did soft shoe men indulge in such...
...good average Englishman drinks, besides his normal consumption of beer, ale, wine, whiskey and gin, about nine pounds of tea per annum. A good average American drinks less than one pound of tea per annum. So found Major Norman McLeod, British teaman, who lately surveyed the U. S. tea market. So learned the executive committee of the Tea Association of America, re-reading the McLeod survey at a meeting last week...
...Drink and Gambling. Not that Ben advocated prohibition or anything that would throw brewers or distillers out of work, "but," said he sagely, "over ?600,000,000 [$3,000,000,000] are spent annually in Great Britain on these two social customs, principally on the workingman's beer and his bets on horses and dog racing...
...celebrities has been Fielder Ruth's routine for years. What no writer ventured to mention as a possible explanation, aside from professional jealousy and personal politics, was that the man who, as owner of the Yankees, contracts for Fielder Ruth's services, is Col. Jacob Ruppert, onetime beer-brewer. "If Babe Ruth ever posed with any Dry," said a fan, "Jake Ruppert'd slap a fine on him quicker'n you can say 'three strikes...