Word: beers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from their first convention in 1905, when howling Wobblies jammed a Loop auditorium, sang Dump the Bosses Off Your Back, retired at intervals for schooners of beer at Hinky Dink Kenna's saloon. Last week there was no singing, no beer, little rejoicing...
Whether they liked it or not, London barflys were getting a bit of art with their "swipes" (weak, austerity beer). Four big London brewers, Barclay, Whitbread, Watney, and Courage had combined to make pub-crawling more cultural. In 1944 they commissioned some ?5,000 worth of drawings and watercolors. Last week an installment of the traveling Pub Art Show opened at The Bull in East Shean, in old times the first coaching station out of London to the southwest. Beamed brilliant, bibulous old portraitist Augustus John: "Artists have always supported the brewery industry. Now we are getting a little reciprocity...
Died. Logan Pearsall Smith, 80, critic and essayist whose ironic, japanned prose* (All Trivia, On Reading Shakespeare) brought him only closet fame; in London. Philadelphian by birth, Londoner by choice, he felicitously chronicled small beer and rusticated in Literature Past, only now & then spoke over his shoulder to Literature Present such querulous words as: Why does Ezra Pound...
...Back to Beer. At first F. W. thought that the new era's Olympians were satisfied with their uneventful life. Later, he was secretly informed that more & more Astromentalists were plotting to recreate the old world of pain and sin. In remote regions these retrogrades had made settlements where they kept chickens, cats, drank beer, traded, worshiped in churches, and raised families like beasts...
...recent pictures stayed comfortably close to the farm, and included a diversity of crops (Shucking Corn, Sugar Cane, Rice Threshing). But among his new claims to fame was one stylized, swirling arrangement of "Cowboys" and wooden-looking Indians which Benton had first envisioned through a glass of beer. Said he: "As far back as I can remember, the Anheuser-Busch brewery used a picture of Custer's last stand on their calendars. I've seen it in every saloon and pool hall in the Southwest." Benton decided to paint his own version because he was confident that Cassily...