Word: beers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sells about as much as any other. Whiskey goes pretty well too, and most of the customers that come as far as Canal Street can take it straight. Of course, during the day, most of the boys have to go easy and we find that the usual standby is beer." Contrary to popular belief, the Sharkey Special punch is not named after this famous pugilist, "It was on the books long before my time," he explained...
...these, delightfully as he said so. Nor yet was Tennyson correct when, with awful Victorian punctilio, he wrote of a dove and a young man's fancy. It is only a time when for a few weeks a man will spend his pay check on poor movies, bad beer, a rented canoe, and a ride on a roller coaster. And all because the shrubs grow greener upon the Lorelei in spring. Poets and songsters have been wrong; but the rugged, hard-headed, unsentimental Angle-Saxons in their far-off wisdom had a four letter word...
...began sending out invitations last month to 1909's 25th Reunion in June he came upon the name Ernst Franz Sedgwick ("Putzy") Hanfstaengl. Few Nineteen-Niners could forget the bellowing, arm-waving German youth who won his first Harvard fame playing the piano at a freshman beer party. When "Putzy" Hanfstaengl first heard the Yale cheering section sing "Bright College Years" he cried out: "Why the Elis! They sing my Wacht am Rhein!" Scion of the great Connecticut and Massachusetts family of Sedgwick and the famed art-printers of Munich, he made the good Harvard clubs. But his Harvard...
...would be at home almost at once. Each would need to learn only a few names. Illinois' favorite soft-lighted booths for pairing off between classes, are at Hanley's and Prehn's. Favorite snacks are rich fudge squares called "Lukers," washed down by Coca-Cola. Beer is too expensive and sale of hard liquor near the campus is forbidden by State law. But almost any Illini can tell the stranger where to get a pint of "corn." And the young philosophy and romance which burgeon in a luxurious Student Union, in 124 dormitories, fraternity & sorority houses...
...race. But these were not the least of Oxford's misfortunes. On race day last week, Cambridge won the toss for lanes, chose the wind-sheltered Surrey side of the river, an important advantage on the choppy water that afternoon. Primed by a robust meal of steak and beer the night before, the Oxonians carried their shell from the boathouse; as challengers, set it in the water first; pulled off sweaters and scarfs; waited. The Cambridge boat was ready in a moment. At the crack of a gun, 16 pairs of white arms swung in unison...