Word: beers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are many opportunities for over-sentimentality but fortunately director Ralph Murphy has charted the course of his feamy schooner around these perils. The plot is somewhat standard: Papa Hoffman, Americanized German, whose name has for years been synonymous with the best of beer, sends his sons to France to fight the Fatherland. During their absence the Volsteadian debacle closes his lawful business and establishes the lucrative blind pig and speakeasy. Conflict between his remaining son, who now manufactures near beer, "the nearest we will ever got to beer," and Nails, his erst-while truck driver, and present racket king...
...expressed desire to spend the day quietly in his little Alpine cottage near Berchtesgaden he could not avoid the attentions of his delirious followers. They roused him with flowers, they roused him with telegrams, bottles of wine, boxes of cigars (Chancellor Hitler does not smoke, drinks nothing stronger than beer), Easter eggs, Westphalian hams, lumps of sugar for his police dogs. Back in the Chancellery in Berlin the presents came in by the carload. Sofa cushions were the most popular, there were over 1,000 of them; also clocks, books, pictures, rugs, clothes, a birthday cake weighing 170 lb., dogs...
Bestimmungsmensuren. Meanwhile Heidelberg celebrated Handsome Adolf's birthday in strange fashion. In the Hirsch-Gasse (Stag Alley) is an ancient beer hall and on an upper floor is a long timbered room known to tourists as the oldest fencing hall in Germany. Here for over 100 years members of the student fighting corps have staged their slashing bouts. The Republic's law against student dueling was lifted in Prussia, Bavaria and Baden three weeks ago (TIME, April 17). Heidelberg boys celebrated Adolf Hitler's birthday last week by holding the first public, open, officially recognized student duel...
Music will be furnished by Ned Marshall and his Crimson recording Orchestra in an atmosphere of a German beer garden, complete even to the tall steins on the tables. The dance committee is as follows: H. W. Beaser '34, A. C. Denig '35, F. F. Friberg '34, A. C. McCabe '36, H. E. Roman '36, J. A. Weber '35, and S. L. Weker...
Captain Donohue declared that the number of arrests in the Square was no greater in the old days than it is today. As to the effects of 3.2, the captain declared that if anything, the number of arrests had fallen off since April 7. "Three point two beer will probably do more than anything else to decrease drunkenness," was his comment...