Word: beer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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What was more salutary, even and for an entirely different class was MacDonald's castigation of the smart set reformers who are fully as hypocritical and shallow as the hardest-drinking dry in the Senate. These are they who weep crocodile tears over the poor workmen robbed of his beer because their bootlegger's bills are exorbitant. It is well that as sane and char eyed a man as MacDonald should have reminded America that the working man gets a bank balance or a Ford in return for his deprivation. His words more than counters balance the drivel with which...
...decades ago, over beer mugs, undergraduates told stories of the star fullback who found $100 bills under his door after each game and of the agile shortstop who played baseball on Sunday and who was wagered $50 he could not jump over a bat. But today, such practices are supposed to be extinct...
Somehow or other, it is in his parodies of prominent literary figures that Mr. Benchley outdistances all competition. "The Henna Decade" in five parts, is one of the glories of the group. Part 4 in particular, should bring to even the estimable Mr. Beer a series of not too quiet chuckles. "Milt Gross stood talking with Ring Lardner and another on the steps of the American Indian Museum. He had under his arm a bulbous bundle and this dropped incontinently to the granite pedestal as he shrugged his shoulders. 'A peckage skelps,' he said. 'Heendian skelps witt blad.' Lardner raised...
...entertaining as the past CRIMSON-Lampoon ones have been. I'll never forget the number of times I've ridden an old bicycle to those annual diamond debates of the editors, through all kinds of weather and in every condition. In days gone by, a keg of beer used to liven up these ball games, and nowadays I miss it. The kegs used to sit right out in the middle of the field, and at the access of any player or players at all times...
...then started the project of a supplementary series of concerts of popular character to suit the warmer season. They were modelled after the "Bilse" Concerts of Berlin, the formal rows of seats and tables were removed and tables were so installed so that one might sip wine or beer, munch a sandwich or smoke, while listening to a waltz of Strauss or a march of Sousa...