Word: beers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dunster D-11, in Lowell R-22, everywhere the Sophomores gather. Sartorially superb, they speak glibly over the beer and pretzels. After all, why not? They are all candidates for honors, there is time, and when one knows the ropes. . Clever men break the bank at Monte Carlo. Harvard is a heritage for those--who know their way around...
...teachers are owed nearly $37,000,000 in back salaries. Many a school stayed closed, notably in the South and Southwest. Elsewhere many a school opened on a limited budget, prepared to stick it out as long as money lasted. Arkansas and Oklahoma were planning to keep going on beer tax receipts. Louisiana could manage for seven or eight months, then perhaps save the schools with a liquor...
...prayerful rehashes of the address he has delivered in the Senate every Jan. 16 to commemorate Prohibition's birthday. Over & over he cried: "The millionaires want the drinking public to pay their taxes and the brewers and distillers want to make fortunes from your money. They offer you beer when your wives and children want bread." He urged Texans to break the march toward Repeal, "to drive the first of the 13 nails necessary in the lid of John Barleycorn's coffin...
...Marveling at the promptness with which this proposal had been realized, I walked around the cloister, and observed the humility of the Dry Methodist Sister Refectorian, as she set out on the table tiny bottles of beer, 'just to keep peace in the community,' explained the Prioress. 'It really does help,' she added...
...ardent Prohibitionist. He bore with Canada Dry so long as its ads went no further than to picture suggestively the cork of a gin bottle lying beside bottles of its sparkling beverages. Unreconciled to Repeal, Mr. Fry on learning that Canada Dry would soon be selling beer and whiskey, insisted that N. W. Ayer should drop the account...