Word: beers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Christmas dance was given at the White House for the younger members of the Roosevelt family. The stately front hall was piled with kegs of beer for the occasion. They were covered with tablecloths. Tables, and cooling and tap equipment were specially installed for the occasion. Mrs. Roosevelt, her daughter and her two daughters-in-law received the guests. As the party imbibed to satiety, all formality was laid aside and hilarity was unconfined. In a corner sat the President shaking hands and chatting with all who chose to greet him. Guests, tired from dancing in the historic East room...
...Wine, Beer and Champagne bring up the tail end of the list but have been completely outclassed by their stronger rivals. Wine sales total a mere six, while Beer has a meagre sum of three to its credit. Scared away by the cost of Champagne, students have only made two purchases of the "Nectar of the Gods," in the two months since repeal. Port and Sherry head the list of wines and in the Champagne division "Heldsick" and "Chateau Rheims" divide the two points...
Marks used to cover 60 saloons and beer halls a week. In one he observed a tough customer bothering a raw young waitress who, bursting into tears, exclaimed: "No one would dare insult me if my brother Jack was only here." And she added, "My mother was a lady." Instantly Marks's pencil was out and another song was born...
...everyone because he knew what to do. He asked the waitress for a double order of cheese. When the mouse saw the cheese, he ran up the man from O entry's legs and sat on the table, where he ate some of the cheese. There was also some beer spilled on the table, which the mouse drank, and, naturally, he became very tight. When the waitress, Minerva, the nice one, came to the table, the mouse would run to that side of the table, too. He was a funny mouse. Finally the man from O entry took...
...were prepared for our guests with 200 gallons of corn beer and other spirits which we expected would last until midnight, when we hoped they would move on to another supply that we had placed several miles down the river. Hearing the sound of the drums, people flocked in from miles around. There was much dancing, and merriment which reached its height when one of the local officials fell into the river. As we had calculated, the guests left the Harvard ball about midnight. But our ruse failed, for in a few hours they returned with our decoy brew...