Word: beer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Detroit has big hotels, a 17,000-seat auditorium, plenty of money and no looming Michigander, but Detroit has little political background or significance and is alleged by some to "smell of beer...
...Book should please intelligent people who hitherto have been able to find the work of George Bellows extensively displayed only in galleries. It contains a preface by Thomas Beer; is three-quarters of an inch thick, twelve inches wide, fourteen inches long...
Muscular Anesthesia. In rowdy secret society initiations the novice, standing rigidly erect, arms at sides, is made to inhale very deeply and hold his breath. As his face grows red and his eyes bulge, great arms glide around his chest, like brewers' clamps over a beer keg. Just as the initiant feels like the inflated frog of Aesop's fairy tale, the great arms squeeze; the victim drops heavily, rendered unconscious by muscular anesthesia. This initiation "stunt," Professor Arno Benedict Luckhardt of the University of Chicago reminded the Academy, is dangerous to a person with a weak heart. The sudden...
...ensuing chapters can be deduced from their titles: "God Help the South," "Dives into Quackery," "The Pedagogy of Sex," "Appendix from Moronia." In all of them, accurate as they may be, important as they may seem, one has the picture of steaming, sweating Author Mencken, his face red from beer and the light of destructive enthusiasm, beating out penny absurdities to the amazement of an audience composed almost entirely of what he refers to as "booboisie...
Mencken is a stocky Dutchman whose appearance suggests the beer-drinking of which he is notoriously fond. He is a polite man socially although certain vulgarisms which he permits himself in private have led to a contrary impression. His writing career began in his native town, on the Baltimore Sun, to the editorial staff of which he now belongs. With Mr. Nathan he rose to repute as one of the editors of the Smart Set, and to fame as the editor of the American Mercury which the two started in 1923. Two years ago he toured, in eccentric fashion, part...