Word: beers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...good pipe and that sort of thing. He's handsome in an orthodox manner-- looks a bit like a collegiate clothes-model in Esquire. Fresh, the lady novelists would call him. He likes week-ends and New York, gets sentimental over the Tiger and a glass of beer...
...subject of some 100 early pages) the Kikuyu people were well-built, well-adjusted savages, who observed strict tribal laws combining communal ownership of land with private initiative as regards goats and wives, the latter being worth about 30 of the former plus a batch of sugar-cane beer. Occasionally they fought a battle with the tall, handsome Masai. Their medicine man shrewdly advised them on all important matters...
...leading man in one of Greta Garbo's first starring films (UFA's Streets of Sorrow), lately guide in the New York World's Fair Palestine Pavilion, sought passage to Palestine where he will join the Jewish Legion. An eye-witness to Hitler's 1923 beer-hall Putsch, Actor Muenz gibed: "I was in the street when the machine guns began to fire. Immediately Hitler was down on his face. His General, Franz Ritter von Epp, got disgusted and shouted: 'What's the matter with you? You are supposed to be a soldier. Stand...
...drastic decrees, death by hanging was ordered for saboteurs, pillagers, arsonists, profiteers and loafers. Before officials could get the gallows up, one Johann Heinin was shot in Dessau for sabotage and in Stammheim Herman Weisser was beheaded for stealing shell parts. Income taxes were upped by 50%, taxes on beer and tobacco by 20%. The tax on radios was made practically confiscatory and the death penalty ordered for those caught listening to foreign broadcasts. Public dancing was prohibited as incompatible with the spirit of the times...
...step version, the Beer Barrel Polka resembled a polka about as much as Yes, We Have No Bananas resembles a pavane. And Librettist Brown's lyrics (written with an eye to Bible-belt circulation) carefully avoided all reference to beer. But last week the Beer Barrel Polka, topped the current best-seller list, with 357,000 copies sold to date...