Word: beers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Michigan taxes domestic wines 4? a gallon, out-of-state wine 50?. Many other States war on each other with preferential taxes on liquor, beer, wine...
Loyola, elected General of the Society after thrice declining, perfected such methods of discipline as encouraging Jesuits (with the highest motives) to inform on one another; to travel always in pairs; to drink beer with beer drinkers. He forbade Jesuits to accept ecclesiastical honors-a rule broken only when the Pope commands one to accept a Cardinal's hat as an honor to the Society itself, or appoints one to a difficult bishopric or archbishopric. Ignatius dismissed a father who dared praise him publicly and forbade those living with him to look him straight in the face...
...Transport Garage, pretournament favorites because of their strong fingers (from punching tickets, they say). Overcome by nervousness, they were finally nosed out by the Old Comrades, another Sussex six, 26-to-23. To the Old Comrades went a suckling pig, to the strong-fingered Crawley Busmen a barrel of beer...
Visiting a brewery in Hackney (London outskirts), King George VI was presented with a bottle of beer that had been brewed by his brother. Edward, Prince of Wales, in 1932. Flustered, the King handed the bottle to an equerry, hedged: "I can't very well carry the bottle around...
...that Charles ("Lucky") Luciano, head of the prostitute trust (since jailed), was more than a social acquaintance of Jimmy Hines. He did stay at the same hotel and play golf with Luciano on a junket to Hot Springs, Ark. Another Hot Springs habitue was 'Legger Owney Madden (beer...