Word: beers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...called at the White House, demanded that President Roosevelt call out a machine gun squad to bombard the Washington Hotel, where he said Mrs. Zioncheck was hiding. For the President, Representative Zioncheck left at the White House three empty beer bottles, a package of mothballs...
...Grace Lupp of Highland Park. "The auxiliary was organized two years ago, solely for political purposes. . . . We tried to keep it a clean organization, but we found it was very difficult. . . ." Willingly "Captain" Geraldine Nankervis explained the Legion's virtues: "It keeps our husbands out of beer gardens for one thing. Then, too, we know that when they're at their secret meetings they're not running around with other women...
Next day the first change was made at Barnegat. Past the Radio Marine Station at Tuckerton the coach swayed along, just missed a beer truck before arriving at Absecon. There, in sight of her goal across the causeway, Mrs. Dibble again took the reins. Averaging 16.2 m.p.h. for the four and a half mile stretch to the city line, the coach rolled up to Haddon Hall at 6:10 p. m. to be greeted by fire bells, a siren, the Mayor's secretary, officials of the Atlantic City Horse Show, for which the drive was a resounding advertisement. Running...
Track hazards, in the form of parked autos and strong winds make handicapping more difficult than at Jamaica. But spectators, with one voice, declare that the gentle (third-floor) rain from heaven, which tastes much like beer, makes the Harvard course not only faster and more slippery, but it also tickles the palate more than the ordinary Jamaica downpour...
...spring, it is pleasant to note the appearance of the annual Princeton poll signifying the fortunate few whom the Senior class names yearly as "most respected", "biggest grind", etc. The practice of bestowing such dubious titles upon a handful of the graduating class has become a tradition like the beer-suits and freshman skull caps; it is a ritual which time has enhanced and which offers splendid opportunities for a mass attack upon some hapless individual who can neither foresee nor alter his lot once he has been chosen "best dressed" or named, "thinks he is wittiest". These brands...