Word: beers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days Napoleon gained and lost an empire. In 100 days the 73rd Congress patched together the crumbling U. S. banking system, set up the $2,000,000,000 Home Owners' Loan Corp., created NRA, substituted beer for Prohibition, confiscated all the gold in the U. S., appropriated $3,300,000.000 for public works, established CCC, TVA, FERA. AAA, cut veterans' pensions and, for good measure, put J. P. Morgan on the witness stand and a midget on his knee...
...years of power. "Last year," cried the Chancellor, in his at times lyric budget speech, "the people of this country sweetened their lives with 80,000 more tons of sugar, smoked 6,500,000 more pounds of tobacco and washed away their troubles with 270,000,000 pints of beer!" Beamishly Mr. Chamberlain announced, and as his words were uttered they instantly became effective throughout Great Britain, that the nuisance tax on cheap cinema seats is no more, pay raises go to the Army, the Navy and the Civil Service, the tax on the first ?135 ($675) of lower-bracket...
...last week came when Nazi No. 2 was awakened with a brass band serenade, for it was his wedding morn. As every German knows, Nazi No. 1 eschews pomp, never wears anything more pretentious than a corporal's uniform, eats no meat, never smokes, drinks nothing stronger than beer. Contrariwise No. 2 Nazi Hermann Wilhelm Göring crowds every waking moment with pomp and circumstance, changes from gorgeous to still more gorgeous uniforms half a dozen times a day, stuffs his fat but mighty-muscled frame with much raw meat, tosses off champagne with gusto and indulges...
...cinema that traditional scene in which the comedy character begins to hiccup and mispronounce while gulping at his second cocktail. In Star of Midnight, Clay Dalzell (William Powell) starts his day, not with orange juice but with a highball while shaving. He also requires four Martinis, ten stingers, one beer and an unspecified quantity of brandy neat. Through all this drinking he not only maintains perfect sobriety and finds himself encouraged to solve the problem of who killed Gossip Columnist Tommy Tennant but also manages to make himself so charming to his friend Donna Mantin (Ginger Rogers) that nothing will...
James Montgomery Flagg: "This whole plague of photography is a baby of the Depression. It was cheaper than real art for advertising, but it is betraying its sponsors for all ads now look alike. . . . The boy and girl in their bathing suits being too ecstatic about a case of beer are the same boy and girl on the next page swearing they couldn't live without one of the four cigaret brands that claim to be better than each other...