Word: beers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sing Something Simple. The tune of Lili Marleen has the simplicity, tinged with poignancy, which has characterized many of the most enduring popular songs (Madelon, The Trail of the Lonesome Pine, etc.). It begins by impressing its listeners as musical beer and sauerkraut, ends by becoming a habit-forming musical drug. With an ump-pah accompaniment, it is a march. Changed to ump-da-dump-dump, it becomes a tango. In either case, the strains are of a kind which easily attach themselves to romantic memories and the pathos of separation...
...stockholder's proposal that the pages of the Saturday Evening Post be opened to liquor, beer and wine advertisers was voted down at the Curtis Publishing Co.'s annual stockholders meeting last week. The Post has never run liquor...
...more hilarious note will be struck on an adjoining diamond, where takes place the traditional, beer-soaked brawl between the Crimson, Harvard's journalistic crusader for the right, and the Lampoon, alleged humorous magazine whose horrendous edifice has besmirched the fair appearance of Bow and Mt. Auburn Streets since...
...protested that U.S. soldiers were being denied water by British waiters (who, like all European waiters, spring from a line of camels and believe it is sacrilege to mix water and food at the same time). U.S. soldiers, said M.P. Eleanor, were being forced to order mineral waters and beer with their meals. The Government pondered the case, passed it off lightly by noting that British beer is now so watered down that many consider it no more than water anyway...
...work and no play has never been the keynote of ROTC drills. Slacking off last week, D and F Batteries held beer parties and it seems that the esprit de corps of the unit has become even higher than before...