Word: beer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fifteen novice Freshman crews rowed on the Charles for the first time yesterday afternoon. Prior to going on the water, each eight received a final ten minutes of instruction on the machines from Coach Haines. In the boats the men were under the tutelage of W. E. Beer, Jr. '26, D. C. Gates '26, and J. B. Keogh '25, Coach Haines' newly appointed assistants...
...Brown of Harvard" has given it the doubtful compliment of naming it as a Harvard rendezvous and there are others. It is often found that in later years graduates in recalling their college days will remember most pleasantly some eating place where they foregathered according to tradition. The selected beer gardens of the various student's corrs of the German universities, the famous Pekawook Cafe at Columbia, these are examples of places long remembered and almost traditional in the life of universities. Harvard was on the road to having one of its own in the Waldorf. The new antiseptic tables...
...King smiles resignedly at the debutante princess after failing to kiss Kathie. There's the real tragedy. . . Fortunately, very amusing comedy is alternated with those strenuous and unnerving bursts of passion and the whole is carried along by music of exceptional charm. If American colleges could have beer-rallies and bellow tunes like the rousing Drinking Song, it would be worth it to give up the pose of indifference...
...industries are near and plentiful. But it is to the gangs of the Bad Lands that Cicero owes its headline glamor. Up and down its streets, fiery Sicilians and raucous Irishmen playfully squirt machine guns at each other. On other days they go zooming into Chicago with truckloads of beer. And then, when the day's labors are done, they have their 60 "soft drink parlors," their brothels, and their roulette wheels. The Bad Lands have their king, "Scarface Al" Caponi, alias "Al-phonzo Brown," who has been on the throne since 1922. Never since the days...
...France what they described as "the bribe of Thoiry." Perhaps the cleverest diplomat in Europe, he participated at a farewell "bierabend" tendered him by the German colony at Geneva, before he returned from Thoiry to Berlin. Surrounded by convivial friends - devotees of Gambrinus, the legendary inventor of beer-Gustav Stresemann purposely became "indiscreet." ; He "talked a bit." He exulted at the forthcoming liberation of the Rhineland. He cried that the stain of War guilt had been wiped from Germany by her admission into the League (TIME, Sept. 20). Thus he won a measure of approbation from German Nationalists...