Word: beers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five years in jail or a $5,000 fine, or both, for "acting as a foreign governmental agent without notice to the Secretary of State." Heinz Spanknoebel promptly disappeared. Ships were searched at sea, detectives ferreted. Best opinion seemed to be that Nazi Spanknoebel was hiding somewhere among the beer kegs and singing waiters of Manhattan's Yorkville...
...intellectual touch was an imaginary interview with Mark Hanna by Thomas Beer, making the point that Hanna would have thought present-day Capitalists were weaklings to go sniveling to the Government about their fortunes. In his day strong men "hunted fortunes as if they were bears. . . . We didn't whistle-and then whine to 'em. ... An individualism that squalls for protection from its own mistakes ain't even as respectable as one that bought votes and slugged its way into power with a gun in its hand...
...preceding paragraph contains the acute observations of Madame Fontan on American drinkers in Wyoming. In "Wine of Wyoming," Ernest Hemingway has given a picture of a French couple who earned their living by selling homemade wine and beer at a time when prohibition agents were enforcing the law. Yet it contains some of Hemingway's more humorous lines, for he is wholly at home with these people and recognizes each trait which will amuse an American...
...Pierce-Arrow but Peerless Motor Car Corp. jumped into the beer business last summer...
...CARNIVAL MURDER - Nicholas Brady-Holt ($2). Her throat cut by a dagger, the Fat Lady lies murdered in her tent. Rev. Eb. Buckle sloshes about in the rain, helping the constabulary. Beer, boiled beef and a bucket expose both the freak racket and the killer...