Word: beer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bridge from the mouth of a sleeping companion. In this year: Prince Robert de Rohan Courtenay, for inventing a new poetic medium called Pling Plong; Box-Car Betty, ex-hula dancer and snake charmer, for research indicating that the flavor of a cigar is enhanced if dipped occasionally in beer; Harvardman ('11) Joe Gould, perennial Greenwich Village drink-cadger and author of an uncompleted 9,000,000-word book (An Oral History of Our Time), for turning out a new couplet...
...Handel's Messiah. Boston also boasted a club unique in the U.S. Ten or twelve times a year, as their ancestors have done since 1837, members of the exclusive Harvard Musical Association go to their paneled clubrooms on Beacon Hill for a smoker of chamber music, beans, beer and Welsh rabbit...
...Center for Psycho-Motor Education" (see cut). But he is fascinated with the U.S. and pleased with the thought of staying a while. Moreover, if Conductor Munch grows on Boston, as last week seemed very likely, it was quite possible that Frenchman Munch might develop a taste for the beer, the bread and the beans...
...well as round table discussions of problems related to the interpretation of the various cultures represented by the Center's stock of books, slides, records, reproductions, and realia. Both informal parties and special lectures are presented by the clubs, whose membership numbers anywhere form 15 to 60. Refreshments--beer for the German Club, wine or sherry for most of the others--follow their meetings. The Harvard Council of Foreign Language Clubs, including a representative from each group, makes suggestions as to what types of meetings should be held. This program of lectures and receptions for professors visiting Cambridge is supplemented...
Auld Acquaintance. In Van Nuys, Calif., Angel Cordova explained why he had smashed a beer bottle through the windshield of Carlos Carrillo's car: "I thought he was a friend of mine who I thought...