Word: beer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Enthusiastic boosters of Senator Royal S. Copeland have started what has been characterized--not as a "boom"--but a "bang" for his nomination for President with the popular slogan "Bonus, Beer or Bust." The Soldiers' and Sallors' Copeland Campaign Committee has worked this havoc, and has in addition got out a campaign song, to the inspiring tune of which, no doubt the Copelanders will advance to victory...
...probability, Senator Copeland is as surprised as everybody else. Slogans, as slogans, are not entirely out of date, but in recent years they have tended to ward modest, conservative phrases such as "Back to normalcy". Nothing so sweeping and red-blooded as "Beer, Bonus or Bust" has assailed American ears since "Fifty-four-forty or fight,"--Out possibly, this ardent, whole-hearted sort of thing is just what America needs in the political game...
...Geisenfeld, Bavaria, Franz Dietrich, "champion sausage eater of Ger-many," ate 14 one-pound sausages, drank 10 large glasses of beer in two hours...
...officials at King's, Cambridge, after a visit.) If there were greater provision of beer and ale, I should re-maim until Friday...
Died. The Earl of Warwick, 71, husband of the "Red Countess" and companion of the late President Roosevelt in big game hunting; at Beer, Devonshire...