Word: beers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said to have "gone for a Burton." ... If one of your "oppos" (universal term for buddies) is killed, you don't say he was killed, you just say, "Poor old Joe has gone for a Burton." . . . There is an origin to this expression. One of the most popular beers in prewar England was Burton beer. If anyone was wanted and he wasn't around, it was said that he had "gone for a Burton," for more often than not, he was to be found in the nearest...
...getting along,' the first important thing to remember is that the British are like the Americans in many ways-but not in all ways. . . . They are not given to backslapping. . . . The British are beer-drinkers-and can hold it. . . ."- from A Short Guide to Great Britain, issued to U.S. forces likely to encounter the British...
...State Center, Iowa, stopped on the Gafsa-Gabes highway at midafternoon to day, shook hands and slapped each other on the back. ... By the time the red sun sank splendidly behind western ranges British liaison officers were gradually filtering into Gafsa demanding: 'Have you Yanks got any beer?'"-from New York Times Correspondent C. L. Sulzberger's account of the first meeting of U.S. and British Eighth Army patrols, which took place between Gafsa and Gabes after the Axis had pulled out last week...
...mark these dates down in your little black book. Last day of classes this semester, Saturday, May 8 (three weeks from tomorrow). From Sunday, the 9th through Tuesday, the 11th will come a pre-exam "reading period" (no classes), during which beer will flow freely at the club (not gratis, but like water). Final exams come Wednesday, the 12th through Saturday, the 15th. Then, an inter-term recess of three days (16th, 17th, and 18th) when, we hope, the travel ban will be lifted so that we may see what's happened to the Big City since last time...
...place in the life of Britain was recently published in London. The Pub and the People was the work of an organization called Mass-Observation, which for three years scrutinized the Lancashire cotton-mill town of Bolton. Sample observation: A man aged 66 wrote: "Why I drink Beer, because it is food, drink, and medicine to me, my Bowels work regular as clockwork, and I think that is the Key to health, also lightening affects me a lot, I get such a thirst from Lightening, and full of Pins and Needles, if I drink from...