Word: beer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cafe Neant ("Nothingness"), Montmartre, Paris, a soul-sick traveler of life's rugged highway reclined beside a black coffin, gulped beer from a human skull. Amid their falsetto shrieks and groans, other travelers, pleasure-spent, raised skull-mugs to their fleshy lips, thwacked the coffin-lid, toyed with human bones?the femur, the tibia, the humerus. Waiters in the greasy black of undertakers made long faces, scurried about the skeleton hall, doing waiters' work. Maudlin antiquaries dilated upon the history of the ghoul-crooked relics...
...bodies are blurred shadows in doorways, or lazy silhouettes revealed where street-corner bars and laundries drip golden honey into the darkness. They seem not to have a wish in the world, these limber shadows, except to idle, waiting for a hypothetical friend to treat them to a phantom beer, or listening to the mutter and shuffle 'of jazz that issues from the garish arcade of the Paradise Cafe...
...Vienna, the city where lie the bones of Theodore Herzl, onetime newspaper correspondent and pioneer in the Zionist movement, Zionists gathered for their 14th congress in 28 years. They bent together over tables in beer gardens, talking with subdued gestures, and always there was one name that rang and buzzed in their talk-the name of Chaim Weizmann, head of the World Zionist Organization. Opposition to his reelection was brewing on three fronts...
...talk continued. Deputies slept. Some walked out of the Reichstag and quaffed beer, in the Tiergarten (park) or sat on the benches. So noticeable was the exodus that a Socialist rose to move that the session be moved to the Tiergarten or loud speakers loud enough to reach the innermost recesses of the park be installed. After a few days they were required to wake up, vote on the measures. They did, passing them by average majorities...
...TIME, May 11, et seq.) : "One requires no map in order to follow operations in this important sector. One can install oneself comfortably-except for the flies, whose buzzing might be taken for Abd-el-Krim's air service -on a shady cafe terrace and drink cool beer while a friendly French officer explains the situation with a magnificent panorama of mountains stretched out before one for orientation...