Word: beers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having seen Mrs. William H. Corwith, of Rockville Centre, N. Y.. elected president of the American Legion Auxiliary, the Legionnaires threw the last empty beer can in the gutter, put away their rattles and went home...
...Housewives had to spend hours daily standing in line for supplies. It was no longer possible to entertain at meals, unless the guests brought their own food. At Berlin's big Kurfurstendamm sidewalk cafes, a few brave souls occasionally sat in the dark with their beer, but most Berliners spent their evenings at home, trying to read by carefully shaded lights...
...Income taxes were up 50%, the tax on tobacco up 20%, the beer tax up 14%. It was against the law to ask for a raise in salary or to demand extra pay for overtime. Every able-bodied resident of a German city was required to help pile up sandbags and to assist in building air-raid cellars...
...nonpayment of rent, has brought David up sheltered from the realities of life. A freshman at Stafford, David begins to sample the realities when, egged on by moony old Professor Dopey Daniels (Roland Young), he visits Father No.1, is shocked to find that life for Duke is mostly beer and victuals...
...motor-driven fan for removing foam from beer...