Word: beers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commission on National Defense Expenditure of the Disarmament Conference have been meeting several times each week in an effort to find out just how much money the world spends on armaments. So pleasant did they find each other's company that one weekly meeting was converted into a Beer Club. Last week they published their report and sadly blew the froth off a final meeting. Seventeen months of effort could produce no authoritative figures later than 1931, when the world spent about $6,000,000,000 for guns, warships, tanks, poison gas, airplanes, bombs and bullets of every variety...
...Laude 1929). He smokes innumerable cigarettes, without removing them from his mouth; from this is derived, no doubt, in an attempt to escape the smoke, the tilt of his head and the squint of his eyes. Nights he is to be seen returning from Hazen's beer parlor, an aged grey slouch hat perched on his head, and the eternal butt in his mouth...
...very excited by the Diamond attack until Richard Hugh Scott, Reo's president, squared off against Chairman Olds. An oldtime Dry who used to insist that the return of 4% beer would make two idle for every one it employed, President Scott was Reo's general manager with dictatorial powers until last December. Mr. Scott's endorsement of the Diamond committee brought an angry blast from the Reo management: "We agree with the independent stockholders' committee that the results of operations of the company during the past few years have been unsatisfactory. For that very reason...
Those who bought their tickets in the remodelled vestibule read on them that for the price of admission ($1.50) they were not only entitled to the spectacle itself, but "Free Eats, Drinks and Be-merries." Inside, the place looked just like what it was supposed to be: an oldfashioned beer & music hall, with advertisements painted on the olio, tin guards over the footlights. Not only in the matter of eats, drinks and be-merries does the American Music Hall surpass the old Morley productions (which had no tables and obliged the patrons to step down the street for their beer...
Producer P. T. Barnum, an expounder of temperance, never allowed anything stronger than beer served in his auditorium. But the thrifty showman must stir in his grave, into which he was lowered 43 years ago last week, at the amount of the brew given gratis at the American Music Hall. Lavishly distributed by Producer Harry C. Bannister. Cinemactress Ann Harding's divorced husband, round after round appears, during the performance and after, when the cast descends among the guests and encourages one & all to join in singing old favorites...