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Word: beer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beer (brands unspecified), 17? per pint, six pints for $1.00, six quarts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Tourists, Excursionists | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

...always been its chairman. When he rapped for order, he got it. Nor did many of the 2,000 manufacturers, merchants, shippers, railroaders, steamship men, importers and exporters who went to Detroit last week stray across the river to Windsor, Ontario, seeking a glass of good beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Foreign Traders | 6/6/1927 | See Source »

...your delightful periodical. I herewith quote a criticism on the subject of an article that appeared in an issue several weeks ago [TIME, March 28] to the effect that the German Envoy to Latvia was making himself and his country popular by taking to the local customs and drinking beer with the natives: "TIME seems a little misinformed. Dr. Koester has been here since Latvia was acknowledged as such by the Germans-not three months ago as TIME has it. It is true he is a florid beerbibber and goes in for 'Beer Abends' sing-songs -'very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Enthusiasm | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

...EARLY WORM?Robert Benchley (Illustrated by Gluyas Williams)?Holt ($2). Funnyman Benchley's creek of comedy has by no means yet run dry. He babbles gently on in parody of Sherwood Anderson, H. G. Wells, Calvin Coolidge, Thomas Beer, polar expeditions, founding a night club, interviewing celebrities, solving crimes, stabilizing francs. His method of reductio ad imbecillum is to expound a subject in its simplest terms, putting caricaturist's emphasis on one or two superficial details. Example: "According to Dr. Max Hartmann . . . there is no such thing as absolute sex. If 60% of your cells are masculine you rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Benchley Babble | 5/30/1927 | See Source »

Prices. The Government Liquor Commission will establish prices. Forecast: Scotch $7 Canadian whiskey $5; beer $2. Beer will be sold at cost; wines and whiskeys at a profit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Over the Lake | 5/23/1927 | See Source »

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