Word: beers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Months ago a group of British and U. S. correspondents waited day after day in a draughty courtyard in the Rue de Crenelle playing cards, drinking beer, arguing, squabbling, waiting for Marshal Foch to die. Last week the identical men were waiting in another courtyard, across the Seine in the Rue Franklin beneath the window of Georges Clémenceau...
...pertinent point of the Yale Professor's lecture was that "Alcohol is a poison and a nareotic just like morphine, and a single glass of beer is sufficient to render some men incapable of driving an automobile safely." Professor Carver agreed heartily with this argument, and added that, in the matter of drunken driving, there is more danger to a community from the actions of a moderate drinker than from a habitual drunkard. "A man" completely intoxicated is not likely to go out and drive a car, whereas a person who has but a few drinks, maybe...
Gustav Stresemann was born in Berlin in 1878, the son of a beer merchant. Father Stresemann had higher plans for young Gustav than the beer business. Scrimped pfennigs sent him to Berlin and Leipzig universities, found him. a good job in an association of chocolate manufacturers, paved the path that brought Gustav Stresemann to the Reichstag...
...eyes. She began by trying to wreck a Medicine Lodge grogshop with an umbrella. In later forays her weapons were bricks and stones wrapped in old newspapers. These she hurled through mirrors, lewd paintings, rows of glassware. With her famed hatchet she chopped up cherry bars, furniture, cash registers, beer kegs. Her battle cry to her followers was: "Smash, women. Smash...
...Lansing, Mich., state officials calculated, on returns from Michigan's new malt tax, that 109,000,000 gal. of beer were brewed last year in Michigan tubs and wash-boilers, enough to provide 174 bottles for every man, woman and child...