Word: beers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With that he scurried up to the speaker's platform. His boys broke into cheers, kept right on roaring. The boss's chin quivered. Finally, Petrillo burst into tears. "I'm a soft touch," he sobbed, reaching for a beer. "Either fight or cry." Later he added an aside: "But we don't want any victories, or any fights. We want to love...
Condon calls his new jazz temple "Town Hall with booze." ("Our music stimulates drinking. They figure in order to understand it, they got to do like the fellow playing it.") Few people, even among fellow players, follow Condon's own habits: boilermakers (whiskey with a beer chaser) at the bar and milk at home (he thinks milk will keep away ulcers...
...Then W.R. went on a trip," said McManus. "I kept on with the beer. Pretty soon came a wire from Kansas: 'I told you to take out the liquor.' Sometimes I think all he looks at is the comics...
...halls of Fayerweather and South Fayerweather, that smelled only of beer and pipe tobacco, now exude faint traces of Prince Matchabelli perfume. The battered furniture, handed down for cash from generation to generation, has been junked for double beds, ruffled curtains, flowered drapes and potted plants. Hot plates glow busily under home-cooked dinners. Dartmouth plans to erect a lattice fence to hide the disturbing sight of bras and panties drying on the clothesline...
Campus Cop Nelson Wormwood, a steely-eyed ex-Vermont farmer, used to enter Fayerweather on the double when an all-night beer party got too high. Now he skips it. "It's just like a private apartment house," he says contentedly, "no trouble...