Word: beers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beer Barrel...
This brought Turlington to his feet with the motion that the beer served at the Students Club be analyzed for alcoholic content in order that the three-point-two rule be rigidly enforced. The motion died lacking a second...
...jewelry and sterling ware, monuments and tombstones, passenger cars and boats. They needed merely 2.5% of 1941's phonographs and radios, 3.7% of washing machines and refrigerators. They would not suffer with a balanced 71.8% of food, yet "for morale" they should have 65% of beer & wine, 75.2% of tobacco...
Henry Louis Mencken admits that "the resurrection men" have had him in their "animal house"-his way of saying that he has been in the hospital. Illness has not prevented the Baltimore sage, who believes that beer is very close to the meaning of life, from drawing off a third foaming, savory volume of reminiscences.* As much as he loves beer Mencken loves "competence ... in any art or craft from adultery to zoology." This book is further testimony to his own competence as the nation's comical, warm-spirited, outstanding village atheist. He still stands ready to convulse, while...
...bushels of oats, and young Mencken joined the Y.M.C.A. There he learned to distrust "Christian endeavor in all its forms" and moved hastily on to Baltimore Polytechnic. The Polytechnic taught him 1) that philanthropy was "a purely imaginary quantity, like demi-virginity or one glass of beer," and 2) that the eager curiosity of growing boys was not to be satisfied by anatomy classes in which "all the abdomen south of the umbilicus was represented by a smooth and quite uneventful surface...