Word: beers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fine Distinction. In Chicago, Miss Bertha Palmer lectured her colleagues of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union on how to tell "the difference between a beer bottle and a whiskey bottle...
...every night of our lives is spent upon the books as several instructors noticed one morning last week. A good part of the platoon had a taste of beer and spaghetti (with meat balls) at a little party for which we owe thanks to the Lieutenant who obligingly forgot, for the night, our performances at past inspections. We doubt whether the Navy can show us a man who can hold a candle to "Turk" as far as "chug-a-lugging" is concerned...
...bank. . . . North Dakota has turned to diversified farming. More and better grasses & pastures, more cattle, sheep, hogs, dairy products, turkeys, eggs and chickens. Maybe the farmers of McKenzie County can manage it, but the rest of us find it leaves us considerably less time to loaf, drink beer, play poker and have gold fillings put in our teeth than we would like...
Love and Twilight. On the McGill campus, he was a legend. To students who hesitated to marry while still in school he would say: "You can afford a few household articles and a can to go to the corner for beer-what more do you need?" He wore battered hats, never seemed to rule his unruly hair. He liked to play billiards, disliked telephones (though his Montreal house was full of them), was always on bad terms with dress ties...
...City Bar's wide wooden counter, MacKenzie County farmers, their jeans heavy with cash, drank up 40 cases of beer a day. At Christensen's hardware store they stripped the shelves nearly bare. They played poker, guzzled, loafed, had Doc Winter put gold in their teeth...