Word: beers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...derived, too, from the sparkle and rest radiating from every word of a man who had reached the age of 74 on a constant diet of fine liquor and rich food, and who, in retrospect, regretted nothing save the bad wines he had drunk. "Sparkling Lacrima Cristi. . . suggested ginger beer alternately stirred up with a stick of chocolate and a large sulphur match." George Saintsbury's "Notes on a Cellar Book" suggests fine old port, beautiful and savory in its cut-glass goblet, warming and exhilarating in its proper home...
Lean, fanatical Dr. Wilhelm Frick, a veteran of the Munich beer hall Putsch of 1923, has long been a Nazi front ranker. Born in the Palatinate, he was Minister of Interior of Thuringia when most Nazis were discredited. He ran the State on such enthusiastically Nazi lines that the Republican Government of Chancellor Muller stopped a $60,000 a month subsidy to the Thuringian State police in an effort to get rid of the Palatinate, Thuringia, Bavaria and the rest of them...
...Cambridge night life without being interrupted by the same organized deviltry of the professors. Do you want a hot time in the old town tonight, do you want a dreamy atmosphere in which to pry open a Radcliffe life-story, do you want to carouse on more than Harvard Beer? Whatever it be we Editors of the CRIME suggest...
...told they stand by their country. Where should we be if we copied them? "Perhaps this behavior is because His Grace has met with troubles in England, but I think one shouldn't shirk his duty. One should put personal pettinesses on one side-life isn't beer and skittles, even to a duke. And a duke should know he is able to stand up to trouble, and he should know where his duty lies...
...purchase enough liquor to interfere materially with the proper functioning of his limbs. An ordinary boy of eighteen can get his shot of the McCoy anywhere. In Harvard Dining Halls, unfortunately, the man who an hour before was drinking himself insensate in the Square is denied a glass of beer with his meals because he lacks six weeks of being twenty...