Word: beers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which sanctioned the permits which opened the kegs which filled the glasses which held the beer that Jack drank in the state of Massachusetts, was rather hastily drawn up, in a pardonable fervor for the immediate start of tippling. It had several minor flaws, in the sections relating to licensing, in the lack of provision for sales in universities, and in the prohibition of beer to minors. In the first instance, the bill has already been amended and it should, in the interests of common sense, be further patched up during the coming session of the Assembly...
Under the present regimen, a college or university which wishes to dispense beers and ales is treated as if it were an ordinary commercial and profit-making source of supply. But the mere fact that beer is sold is not decisive; the relation of a university to its students is categorically different from that of a tradesman to his customers, and the difference ought to be recognized in the law. As for the stipulation that beer cannot be sold to those under twenty-one years of age, it has proved not only harassing to the legal advisers of the University...
...Passed a bill by Oklahoma's Hastings repealing an old Indian Territory statute which prevents Oklahoma from having 3.2% beer; sent it to the Senate...
...Huntington Park, Calif., winner in 1928, swung into the lead and despite frequent stops for gasoline held it for 185 mi. until the finish. As he spun steadily around the track and no more accidents happened, the crowd wandered about the grounds picking four-leaf clovers, swigging bottled beer, munching hamburger sandwiches. His lead never seriously threatened, Meyer coasted the last 25 mi. to save gas and play safe, crossed the line in 4 hr. 48 min. The spectators reassembled to cheer him, almost crushed him when they crowded around his car. Meyer kissed his wife, vowed he was going...
...think that my own case, though I may not deal with the material so cleverly as the oyster does, is the latter; because I have seldom written poetry unless I was rather out of health, and the experience, though pleasurable, was generally agitating and exhausting." After a pint of beer for lunch he would go for a long walk, "thinking of nothing in particular"; sometimes a line or two, sometimes a whole stanza would come into his mind. When he got home he would write down what had come to him, leaving the gaps to be filled by further bursts...