Word: beer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Richmond-on-the-Thames, England, to train for the annual varsity boat race. Upon reaching the hotel which was to be their headquarters, the president of the crew said to the proprietor: "Has it arrived?" The proprietor replied that it had. "It" was a shipment of special Cambridge beer, the approved training table beverage for the university (see "Oxford...
...time!" "Prepared to commit murder-?" taunted the petite, personable Zina. "You couldn't kill me, could you Sergei?" "Yes, I swear it! If anyone here will sign a document saying I am not to blame, I am ready to kill that person without hesitation, drink two bottles of beer afterwards, go to the cinema, and then give myself up to the police." From her small purse Zina Jukova produced a bit of paper and a pencil. Pursing her lips, she wrote. "Draw that long Finnish knife you have, Sergei!" she laughed. "Here is your paper." Trembling, Student Slovochotov drew...
...ghetto family adopts him, the Lipshitzes. He outpunches the Grogan gang, gets used to elevated trains and a million smells. A Bowery bartender who handles pugilists takes him in tow. Like most successful bartenders, Pug Malone is clean-living, highminded. John Breen serves beer, knocks out bruisers, goes to night school. He becomes Malone's assistant on a country farm where men of paunch and riches submit themselves for renovation. One wealthy man, Gilbert Van Horn, less paunchy than most, discovers he is John Breen's father. John finds out too but neither says anything. Van Horn makes John...
...Hupfel in Manhattan. In six years he became Hupfel's master brewer, and Hupfel lent him enough money, combined with what he had saved, to start a brewery of his own. George Ehret called it the Hell Gate Brewery. It was his ambition to make the best lager beer in the U. S. Fire burned down the Hell Gate Brewery. George Ehret built it up again. To get pure water he drilled an artesian well through 700 feet of rock. He would not defile good hops with city water. In 1871 he put out 33,512 barrels, and knew...
Surgeon Mayo's lecture, finally delivered, was pertinent with the week's news. There had died Brewer George Ehret, 92, whom German bands serenaded as they drank his beer free on his birthdays; Soldier John McCausland, 90, one of the last two Confederate Army generals; Historian James Ford Rhodes, 78; Dr. Edward Wyllys Andrews, 70, an organizer of the American College of Surgeons...