Word: beers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They found clean clothes, clean sheets on real beds, the best French service, chamber music at lunch, tea dances, swing bands at dinner, concerts, movies, Cokes, local gin and beer. Signs grinned: '"No Saluting." For nothing or for a few francs, they could hire bicycles, sunbathe, play at the Lawn Tennis Club, take American Express tours in the big rolltop busses. There were canoes, pedallo boats and sloops with which to negotiate the blue Mediterranean. Most incredible of all: if any of them got taken drunk, gentle MPs put them gently...
...London it is a warm spring day, and you know what spring in southern England means. I have been across to Henekey's Bar by the side of Elizabeth's Grays Inn, where a bit of medieval still stands. There among the barrels I have had my beer and sandwich, stunned as if I had lost a personal friend-for it was this morning that we learned you had lost your President...
...enjoy having a glass or two of beer at night, but it is becoming an ordeal, for 90% of the time when I go in and quietly sit at the bar, the inevitable drunk shows up and, slobbering, offers to buy you a drink, insists on your listening to his tales of what he did in the last war or what his cousin is doing in this one. He hangs onto you for at least an hour. He is the worst pest of all. . . . [A RETURNED VET] Detroit...
...Aries left Iceland for her first flight on May 16. That afternoon she was over the geographical North Pole. After circling for an hour and a half, completing a trip around the world in 76 seconds by tightly banking around the Pole, the eleven-man crew dropped a beer bottle and a Union Jack...
After the Archbishop's blessing, fishermen and clergy went about the business of consuming 400 pounds of lobster, ten bushels of steamed clams, 1,000 pounds of boiled codfish and corresponding quantities of beer and wine...