Word: beers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Roman Scandals (Samuel Goldwyn). When Eddie Cantor was a singing waiter in a Coney Island beer parlor, his comedy routine consisted of a song or two and a few jokes, original or stolen. Now that he is the highest-paid funnyman in the U. S. and a member of the Cinema Code Authority with President Emeritus Lowell of Harvard, his performances require such elaborate preparations that he can appear in only one a year. William Anthony McGuire, George S. Kaufman, Robert Sherwood, George Oppenheimer, Arthur Sheekman, Nat Perrin and Cantor himself collaborated on story or dialog for Roman Scandals. Several...
Quiet Drinking: A Book of Beer, Wines and Cocktalls, by Virginia Elliott...
Many will think it open to question that the unity of the houses, and the assimilation of graduates and tutors into them, are no more important than the presence of beer. There may be tutors so dedicated to the success of the house plain that they will sacrifice their new privilege, but the record of the tutors' tables, of their healthy life and stubborn, imposed death, indicates that such tutors are in the minority. The graduate students, whose interest is less direct, cannot be expected to eschew beer at meals in the tutorial cause; the bulk of undergraduates over twenty...
Thirsty Cantabrigians will no longer and it necessary to journey Bostonward in order to satisfy their Bacchanaslian desires. A forty-five year period of aridity was brought to an end last night by a 3 1-2 to 1 vote in favor of beer, wines, hard liquors, and taverns...
...Butler was of prime importance to the College, for it was he who dispensed beer, wine, and chocolate to the hungry and thirsty scholars. Another man filled the capacities of bursar, dean's office, parietal board, and coop. This worthy was the steward, who kept track of absences, excuses, and suspensions, and collected fines and imposed other disciplinary action. He also arranged for "special orders" for the students who wished to eat in the sanctity of their rooms, and who were well equipped to prepare their nightly repasts. The night of the fire, these backbones of the College lost their...