Word: beers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Greatest hush-hush ship in line was not the Soviet battleship Marat whose comrade sailors spent most of their time exercising on parallel bars on deck, nor the Nazi pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spec which served beer to visitors, but the pride of the French navy, the Dunkerquc. Only official visitors were allowed on board, and even they were rushed below decks as quickly as possible. Though only half the size of Britain's ponderous Hood, the newly completed Dunkerque, spies insist, is the fastest and most heavily armored battleship afloat...
Having in this way operated on the courts, they returned to the Common Room, where they attacked a glass chandelier with beer cans. Finding the broken glass pretty cumbersome on the wooden floor, they ground it in with their heels...
...that he went back to Europe in a huff. Said he: "If the American people will express the wish to have me here again, I'll gladly return and sing with all my soul." For five years Sparrow Gigli warbled in Continental concerts, grew a paunch in Munich beer halls, dabbled in German cinemas. Then Hollywood finally called him again to the U. S. Last week, much fatter than in his Metropolitan heyday and resembling both New York's Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia and Chicago's Scarface Al Capone, he made his U. S. cinema debut...
...item, of painting in the sale was Indian Warfare, by Frederic Remington, incorrectly subtitled Custer's Last Stand. Though not the traditional Custer's Last Fight, painted especially in 1888 for Budweiser Beer advertisements by Cassidy Adams, this canvas brought top price for painting. It went for $7,700 to a Manhattan connoisseur whose agents, the Macbeth Gallery, also laid out $10,200 for a pair of similar Western pictures by Charles Marion Russell: Hunter's Luck, a hunter stymied by a cliff, and The Holdup, a stagecoach robbery...
...cleavage between brewers and distillers was emphasized further last week at a Manhattan meeting of the new United Brewers Industrial Foundation, devoted to promoting beer as a mild, nutritious beverage "for the American Home." Absent were the distillers as brewers talked of disassociating beer and hard liquor as much as possible, a maneuver to help their cause in the event of Prohibition's return...