Word: beers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boned junior usher from Brooklyn, New York, stole the first Class Night show in Harvard history last night and turned the Eliot House courtyard into a tumult of screams and shouts, as an overflow crowd tossed off barrels of beer while watching a vaudeville program staged by the 1949 Class Day Committee...
...eastern slope of the Rockies, usually as dry as a bowl of corn flakes during a milk strike, was wet down by torrential rains. Streets were flooded, cows marooned and rivers pushed over their banks in Colorado, Wyoming and Kansas. Almost everywhere else the weather was hot; beer and bathing-suit sales boomed and female sunbathers went to the office looking as though they had been parboiled. The sun was almost the undoing of people near Wilmington, Del., where a dead whale washed ashore and stank up the countryside...
...canoes with gardenias, carnations and violets draw alongside; or gondolalike chalupas glide up while their mariachis play and sing La Paloma or Cielito Lindo. Some of the big canoas have luncheon tables in their centers at which the tourists can eat mole and tortillas and drink the famed Mexican beer...
This spring, some tipplers got a trifle careless: they started throwing empty bottles out the windows. The administration decided to clean up. First, the university's special police raided a beer party at the Deke house, and the chapter house was ordered closed from June 15 to next February. Then, the cops attended the Sigma Phi spring formal, nabbed ten couples (of the 50 couples at the dance) drinking white wine in the basement...
...looked like a magnificent mulatsdg.* In Budapest's carnival-bright streets, workers danced the csdrdds and the rumba, while youngsters jitterbugged. In parks, tents had been set up for the distribution of goulash and other delicacies; beer flowed as fast as it once did at Tammany picnics. Communist Boss Matyas Rakosi had ordered weeks of countrywide fun and frolic to get the voters into the proper mood for Hungary's national elections. As in all such well-run Communist affairs, there was no opposition; the communist "People's Independence Front" presented a single list of candidates...