Word: beers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...40th Street, one Henry George consumed at a sitting "six dozen Cotuit oysters, a two-quart tureen of mock turtle soup, a roast . . . weighing just under six pounds, four steak . . . slabs of cold Virginia ham, a dozen scones filled with whipped cream, three bottles of claret, 18 bottles of beer, and countless . . . rolls, butter, radishes, coffee, and sweet oddments." At Bleeck's too, Actress Helen Hayes found Playwright Nunnally Johnson "beating his third wife, whom he had married that afternoon, over the head with a silver-handled umbrella, a wedding present . . . screaming the while: 'You'll never...
...small, red "alert" sign flashes on movie screens. In smoky, crowded London pubs the beer-drinking, the talk go on. Occasionally an American soldier wanders outdoors to watch the lightning of the guns. Diners at the Savoy barely hear, above the music of Carroll Gibbons' orchestra, the noise of the sirens and the batteries. British night fighters go up, their new searchlights probing the night. Londoners tell each other: "It will be all over in a half-hour." Occasionally, they pay for their calm carelessness with their lives...
...Austin kids first heard New Orleans jazz when a copy of the Friars Society Orchestra "Tin Roof Blues" found its way into the juke box at the Poodle Dog, which was the local version of McBride's without the beer...
Plans are now being made for a pro Thanksgiving smoker which is expected to hit a new high in hilarious entertainment and fraternal revelry. Promota Giftos is arranging boxing and wrestling bouts between company members. All the usual music, beer, peanuts and "dramatics...
Local talent at the V-12 Smoker will feature a pair of Judo-boxers along Reader's Digest lines, Dixielanders from the Unit, and Jim Doering as master of ceremonies. Beer, by the case, all on the house, is also promised. But it's only for V-12; Naval R.O.T.C. men are excluded...