Word: beers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wasn't sure I was in the Philadelphia Navy Yard, I would bet this was Bremen or a Munich beer hall...
...make allowances for human curiosity. But this was something more. All week long, eager, smiling German-Americans (500 to 2,000 a day) had bustled aboard the Nazi prize cruiser Prinz Eugen to fete her Nazi crew. They carried dozens of white shirts, bags of sugar, cartons of cigarets, beer-trophies few victorious U.S. crews have received in any port...
...Eugen, everybody spoke excited German. Voices were raised in beer-hall airs as the schnapps went down (in violation of Navy regulations). By remoter bulkheads, the Nazis held hands with American girls. Empty rye bottles rolled clanking under bunks. The loneliest man on board was the single U.S. Marine guarding the gangplank...
...patch of angry, tangled pen strokes; a Picasso drawing of two nudes which looked like sacks of coal (and another which might have been a doodle by Raphael); Group of Draped Standing Figures (headless) by British Sculptor Henry Moore; a wildly sketched, toad-faced "Conqueror" hoisting a stein of beer, by Mexican José Clemente Orozco. But even Ingres might have been willing to admit the simplicity and tenderness of Sculptor Brancusi's three huddled Infants...
...evening over, jovial, gargantuan (225-lb.) Tenor Melchior and his pocket-sized (110-lb.) wife, Maria ("Kleinchen") took 85 guests to the Swedish Three Crowns restaurant, drank aquavit (Scandinavian 88-proof potato liquor) and beer chasers. Said he: "Now I can take a deep breath and start life again...