Word: beers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...delay, an imposing list of 183 debutantes was docketed for presentation to Canada's Governor General, the Earl of Athlone, and his Countess, the Princess Alice. One of the girls listed her home town as Victoria, B.C., 3,000 miles away. Among the others: a Molson (beer), a Dawes (beer) and a Timmins (gold). For half an hour, while friends stood on chairs to watch the ceremony, they presented cards to aides-de-camp, who announced them in precise British accents...
Corn, but No Beer. The first strip McManus did for Hearst was a slapstick called The Newlyweds. Last year old Mr. Hearst got to remembering it-even though he couldn't remember its name-and ordered the artist to resume "that strip with the baby." So, since January, the Sunday Jiggs strip has had Snookums and the Newlyweds at its top. Hearst once told McManus that "rushing the growler" was out, since subscribers in dry states might be offended to see the characters lugging cans of beer...
...Alike in talent, they are poles apart in temperament. Prankish, pun-loving Grouse is easygoing, Lindsay something of a hypochondriac. Warns Grouse: "Don't ever ask Howard how he feels, because he'll tell you." Lindsay likes a drink; Grouse swore off "in the middle of a beer" nearly 30 years ago. Lindsay loves the country; Grouse loathes it. Lindsay is as nattily dressed as a floorwalker, Grouse as rumpled as an insomniac's bed. Lindsay is too scared of first nights to go, Grouse too curious to stay away...
...eyes in front of a loosely hung curtain, "is a healthy, blowsy heifer, with an expression of self-restraint and self-satisfaction which is not very attractive." The man grabbing pies off the tray looks too much like the bride to be the bridegroom. So does the one pouring beer into three-pint mugs. They are probably her brothers. Her father, nowhere to be seen, must be dead. The bride's mother, her face hidden, sits on her right. But the bridegroom's face could not be hidden: Bruegel wouldn't play a trick like that, argues...
...elderly couple sitting between the priest and the bride do not look like her, so are probably her new in-laws. The desiccated character opposite them, yelling for more beer, has "the same peevish expression-vanity without dignity, sourness without purity." But, like his father, he also has store clothes and an avaricious look. That's the man, says Highet. He is "rich but ill-mannered. That is why the bride is sitting quietly with downcast eyes. Her smirk means, 'I'm glad I'm getting married. I don't much like my husband...