Word: beers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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High-Strung. In Augusta, Me., Ralph E. Mosher, who won the nomination for state senator on both party tickets, reported his total campaign expenses: 18?, including 10? for a beer to "relax tension...
...great thirst attacked British troops rushing emergency landing strips to completion in the dust of Normandy. Thinking of luckier comrades guzzling in country estaminets and town bistros, the runway builders began to grouse. They wanted beer...
...different with Vag. He had seen too many of his friends go; too much breaking down at the finish, too many last walks around the Yard, too much dreaming over old English A themes and football program. He had gone to too many farewell parties, smashed too many beer bottles in fireplaces, seen too many people off at South Station. The inevitable pattern of "Gee, I hate to leave the old place;" a pause, and then, "well, so long kid, see you," the over hearty hand-shake and the quick turning away, had begun to seem almost indecent...
Broadway has been having a busy June but a bad one. The "silly season" has sprouted comedies that lack even a silly seasoning of wit, farces more like new forms of torture, a beer-&-pretzel extravaganza at which the vile acoustics became a virtue. Most of these walking corpses already lie in their little graves. Least bad and most likely to survive: Take a Bow, a variety show that, whenever it comes up with a good turn, forgets that one good turn deserves another...
...special liberty we have been granted, the Beer Bust scheduled for Friday has been postponed. The social committee will set a new date in the near future...