Word: beers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they can (which is little enough) to help in the present crisis. Their experimentation really will benefit the future. While in actual fact the epidemic itself, in virulence, incidence, after effects (in this form) or mortality is no more dreadful than an influenza epidemic. Yet it will rival beer as the disease that made St. Louis famous...
...with the President's signature still wet on the Act, union leaders leaped into action. Among the first was United Miner Lewis. U. M. W. sound trucks invaded such battle-scarred coal fields as West Virginia's Mingo and Logan Counties, Kentucky's Harlan County. Free beer drew large crowds. Mine bosses looked on aghast as U. M. W. spellbinders told diggers of their NRA rights, shouted: "The President wants you to unionize. It is unpatriotic to refuse to unionize. Here is your union. Never mind about the dues now. Just join up!" And join...
Answering a query in respect to the trend in music at the present time, Ramona declared, "New York beer gardens are doing as much as any other one factor to effect the transition toward European popular music. They play German and Viennese waltzes almost exclusively, you know, and the public likes them. I'm only surprised that this type of music has not made greater progress already, because New York is certainly waltz-minded; and as New York goes, so usually goes the rest of the country in this respect...
...ancestor who led the defense of Vienna in 1683. An out-&-out Fascist, he has spent most of his great fortune founding, drilling, equipping the Heimwehr that is now the backbone of the Dollfuss Government. Once a friend of Adolf Hitler, he fought beside him in the Munich "Beer Hall Putsch" of 1923, broke away when he suddenly realized that Handsome Adolf was committed not only to the conquest of Germany but the absorption of Austria. He is still titular head of the Heimwehr but the direction of it has been quietly taken out from under...
...fire department, called out to purge the dump whence the cricket hosts seemed to emanate, was repeatedly baffled. Professional exterminators say that the only way to get rid of crickets is to feed them bits of fish or vegetables coated with chemicals, chiefly arsenic. Crickets are guzzlers of beer and sweetened vinegar, may be trapped and drowned in deep glass vessels half-filled with either...