Word: beers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Himmler paraded through World War I and stayed sufficiently far from the bullets and mud. After the war he began to make his mark in Munich beer halls. He was not exactly a pimp. But he had addresses to give fat-necked provincial gentlemen on the prowl in Bavaria's capital...
...these beer halls, Himmler first heard Hitler. At once, he joined the party of the flaccid man with the frenetic shriek and the square-cut mustache. He carried the standard in the abortive Nazi beer-cellar Putsch of 1923. Himmler was not arrested; the Bavarian police of the Weimar Republic told him to run along and find nicer playmates...
...item of news for this week will be the publishing of the class standings based on the results of our first exam last Saturday. To some happy fellows will go the privilege of carefree evenings in the beer parlors of Harvard Square, but speaking for myself and several other of my acquaintance we will only achieve the slight satisfaction of knowing our relative worth in the disbursing world. Of course, we are nonchalant about the whole thing since the worst thing that could happen to us would be an invitation to join the Army as a private. And that...
Discipline is Annapolis-strict: cadets keep their own quarters as spick as at the Academy. On their weekly "town liberty" they may not smoke on the street, or drink a beer at Harry's, or ride or sit in any vehicle except a bicycle. Lounging up & down Franklin Street, they have but one thought: to get through and done with Chapel Hill, get on to Primary, Intermediate, and Operational Training Stations, toward the fine day when they lift a Hellcat or a Corsair off a carrier...
...Philadelphia, H. Ellsworth Bennett, who attributed his good health to four hard-boiled eggs at breakfast, a glass of beer at 3 p.m. and 15 cigars a day, reached the age of 103, still collected the dollar-a-day injury award thrust on him by a railroad back...