Word: beers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...souvenir-hawkers); "stupendous" (the vast buildings, the colored domes, the lighted causeways); ''bewildering" (the endless exhibits, the jostling crowds); "disorderly" (the hodge-podge of scientific displays and Coney Island peep-shows); "interesting & instructive" (the industrial exhibits, the historical displays; but, even more so, the naive, gum-chewing, beer-swigging crowds); "wearying" (the 82 miles of exhibits, the hard gravel walks, the heat); "exasperating" (the incessant cries of "'Yeah, Folks!" "Step this way folks." "Hot dawgs, hot dawgs!" "Mister, have you tried our health drink?"); "amusing" (the comments of the crowd); "salacious" (the sideshows of the Midway); "tame...
...novice, looking older and wiser than his 47 years. As a Republican he had just defeated Farmer-Laborite Mayor William A. Anderson in a nip & tuck election. Mayor Anderson had kept Minneapolis from seeing Crazy Quilt, Fanny Brice's raw revue. He had vetoed the city's beer ordinance, sent citizens to St. Paul for Sunday drinks. Many a Minneapolitan, weary of reform, turned hopefully to "Buzz" Bainbridge and he did not disappoint them. With a theatrical flourish the Mayor-elect declared...
...their expenses paid, were excused from classes. But to he elected they had to prove themselves entertainers, prepare an act to regale their fraternity brothers. Stod King and Zo Elliott wrote a song and when they did their act in Boston, the other Zets stopped pounding with their beer mugs, stopped moulding spongy biscuit-insides to pelt about the room. With King and Elliott they sang...
...Arnold Scheifer's restaurant in New York, George Frei is the waiter in the alpaca jacket who serves the veal stew, the fried potatoes and the draught beer. He served them last week with a broad and radiant grin. For years he saved all his tips so that his boy need never learn to balance a tray or memorize an order. George Frei Jr. wanted to be an architect. George Sr. sent him to the Harlem Vocational School, then to art classes in Cooper Union, then, while he worked as a draughtsman, to New York University. Last week...
...group headed by Major Thomas G, Lanphier, onetime flying instructor and later business associate (in Bird Aircraft Corp. and T. A. T.) of Col. Lindbergh, bought Manhattan's padlocked Phoenix Cereal Beverage Co.. applied for a license to manufacture 3.2 beer under the brewery's old name of Flanagan-Nay Brewery Corp. Since 1925 the brewery has reputedly been run, with William ("Big Bill") Dwyer, by famed Racketeer Owen ("Owney") Madden, now confidently awaiting parole in Sing Sing prison, who last year ordered an airplane from, and was instructed by. Major Lanphier (TIME, June...