Word: beers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rations are the same as those of other war prisoners, and he likes them cooked as plainly as possible. He insists that an officer share his dishes to prove they are not poisoned. Water is all he drinks. "Wine or beer or whiskey clouds the judgment. My job was to estimate public opinion for the Führer. You need judgment for that." He does not smoke. "Tobacco ruins the palate and prevents you from smelling the countryside." When a guard seems dubious about complying with a demand, Hess shouts: "That is what I wish. Those are my orders...
...Forum, Copenhagen's largest auditorium, where troops were quartered, helpful Danes trundled a large consignment of beer cases into the hall. Minutes later the glass cupola blew off and the walls were punctured in several places...
Tony Galento, the heavyweight who walks like a beer barrel, lost his appeal from a conviction and $10 fine for taking a punch at a cop last spring...
...predict that when the Yale-men row their eight oar shells up the Charles in their black derbies and Chesterfields they will find the place already laid waste by a most savage beer-suit clad attackers. Think not that you can escape, Fair Harvard, for the skinny finger of Radar points unerringly...
There he went to study the language, managed to get himself beaten up and bounced out of a beer hall for uncomplimentary references to Adolf Hitler: "They got me all wrong in that pub." He also met and married 18-year-old Clara Ungerland, blonde, violin-playing daughter of a Cologne basket weaver. She died a month later. O'Nolan returned to Eire, and never mentions...