Word: beer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sussex towns and people too, from these intimate, if unconventional vantage points. One feels very "knowing", and not a little thrilled at the experience. Mr. Lyons is a "collector of favor able British types", using favorable in the sense of correct and current. The new landed aristocracy, gross as beer barrels and uncouth as hedge hogs, comes in for a bit of trenchant panning. And the Horatio Bottomleys of Sussex are flayed with but little less vigour...
...conceivably can--the tragedy of an independent Englishman without his whisky and soda! The conception, however, may become the more awful actuality. From far Australia the soft padding of Mr. Johnson's paws are clearly audible in London; and in London, thirsty longshoremen have voluntarily foregone their beer. To the unfortunate students of literature at Cambridge we extend our sympathy; to them undoubtedly has fallen the unpleasant lot of having Sir Arthur's doctrines forced down their throats. They can reject them and become threadbare hack-writers; or swallow them and attain the airy pinnacles reached...
...abandon the one-half-of-one-per-cent interpretation in the Volstead Act, and to read the words 'intoxicating beverage' as referring only to liquors having an alcholic content of more than four, five or even ten per cent. Such an interpretation would probably at once put beer and light wines in the place of the ardent spirits now consumed. One result of that course might be the re-opening of the saloons. That would be a result to be regretted for many reasons, but it might be less demoralizing, less corrupting and less detrimental to the public health than...
...controversy, but we believe by allowing the representative to partake of and play a part in the questions of waste, production, improved conditions and the many details that enter into the performing of a day's work, that it has the same effect as the Volstead Act had on beer. We still have beer, but the kick is removed and the same applies to labor troubles. We still have our labor troubles, but the kick...
...rather pretentious one with wine about three dollars. There was little dressing for dinner at the hotels. In the restaurants of less degree the charge was much loss. Of course a dollar and a half was a hundred marks, which does not grow on every bush in Germany. German beer is poor on account of the shortage of cereals, but the bills of fare showed native wines at very low prices in terms of our money. The largest of the Berlin beer halls is partly closed and partly converted to other uses. Afternoon tea,-or chocolate,--has become an established...