Word: beer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...notified Prohibition officials that he was about to manufacture wine at home. Agents came on the appointed day, looked, left and did nothing. This year his wish was gratified. He was indicted. Said he: "If 2.75% cider is intoxicating, they must prosecute me. If it is not, then 2.75% beer is legal...
...balance of form and substance that makes Robinson's best poems so exactly right, so stark and simple and inevitable; yet when Mr. La Farge falters into prose, his idea gives sufficient impetus to rush the reader along. Without lapsing into "balderdash" on the one hand or the "sour beer" attitude on the other, to quote his terms, he has been penetrating enough to embody the spirit of a senior in a fashion adapted with fine appropriateness to the occasion of commencement, and to give a truthful picture of the mental antithesis peculiar to a man leaving his alma mater...
Crew Y--Stroke, Elisha Canning Jr. '26; 7, R. W. Ladd '27; 6, C. F. Darlington '26; 5, Goffrey Platt '27; 4, Kent Leavitt '26; 3, W. M. Fairleigh '25; 2, W. L. Boyden '25; bow, P. D. Trafford Jr. '25; cox., W. E. Beer...
...Koran permits a man four wives, but many a Turk has beer guilty of concubinal cupidity and has excessively multiplied that number Nevertheless, Turks have for long taken pride in pointing fingers oi scorn at the prostitution of worrier in the Occident, which was a thing unknown to polygamous, Turkish Turkey...
...Pilsner beer is still manufactured at Pilsen, which, since it became a Czecho-Slovakian city, spells its name Plzen. Certain German patriots urged a boycott of the famed Bohemian beer, pointing out that the breweries were forced to donate part of their profits to CzechoSlovakian schools in which German children are forced to learn Czech. They also reminded German "beer-swuzzlers" that there was plenty of good German beer with which to "swuzzle," and that Czechs never "swuzzled" with any but their own beer...