Word: beer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Says Authority McGuire: "jook as noun means a rather ordinary roadhouse outside the city limits . . . where beer is for sale, and where there is a coin phonograph, or nickelodeon, and space for dancing...
Miserly, always shabbily dressed, old August Thyssen used to drink beer and eat wurst with his workers. Consistently he kept away from politicians and society, and when it was suggested that he appear at the German Imperial Court he replied that he had no suitable clothes for such an occasion...
...Fridays Joe takes his wife to the movies with some friends "from up the road." They gather in Joe's house before the show "so that the men can split a tin of canned beer together." Once a year Joe meets "the alumni of his school fraternity," and on rare occasions he takes Gertrude "uptown" to the theatre. "They spring a dinner at one of the smart Manhattan joints, jostle in the crowds, and rubberneck the lights of the Great White...
Most U. S. song hits are made in the U. S. But last week two imported tunes were leading the U. S. field: 1) the Czech Beer Barrel Polka (550,000 copies sold to date); 2) South of the Border, a song about Mexico by two London Irishmen (Jimmy Kennedy and Michael Carr) who have never been there (over...
...that he is capable of better than he has been giving us. . . "Sailor off the Bremen," by Irwin Shaw, is a collection of twenty stories by a young writer who started with "Bury the Dead" and has continued to turn out work of startling excellence. . . Ludwig Bemelman's "Small Beer" has ten sketches, dealing chiefly with Germany and Austria, pre- and post-Hitler. Well illustrated by the author. . . . "The Web and the Rock" is almost exclusively for Thomas Wolfe partisans...