Word: beers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Touhy, 45, sentenced to 99 years for the $70,000 kidnapping of Promoter John ("Jake the Barber") Factor in 1933, is one of the few real gangster toughies left. A runty guy (5 ft. 5, 139 lb.), he bossed the Capone-rivaling Touhy mob during Chicago's gory beer-war and kidnap-racket days, until sentence in 1934 cut him down. Slant-eyed Basil Banghart, 41, the Touhy mob's tommy-gunner, likewise was serving 99 years for the Factor job. Chicago detectives label him "a regular sharpie," tougher by far than Tough Touhy. Completely dedicated to crime...
This organization, distracted by rivers of six per cent beer and small talk that ranges from post-war planning to post-mortems on the current collapse of the Yanks, must compose, rewrite and assemble news stories up to that awful time known throughout the profession as the deadline. After that hour, and in the innumerable in-between minutes, News Editors occupy themselves with the pleasures of CRIMSON life, baiting Room men, the Business Board and themselves...
...Carnegie Hall bar and Joe Romano's Restaurant around the corner, many an oldtimer with a battered fiddle case shook his head sadly over his beer. Summer was over for the Philharmonic orchestra; it had been about as quiet as a monsoon. The open-air season at Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium had piled up the largest deficit in the orchestra's 25-year history, most of which is written in red ink. Dimmed out as an air-raid precaution, the outdoor stadium had been plagued nightly by the whir of airplane motors. A bolt of lightning...
Under an accelerated program, the CRIMSON will open its doors to members of the June Freshman Class, Wednesday at 7:30 o'clock, with a free beer party in its palatial offices at 14 Plympton Street...
...particular treat for the Indians in the Green tribe who are fond of their fire-water. A campaign started by Dartmouth Inter-fraternity Council to revise rules in respect to drinking has received considerable attention from college authorities, and may ultimately result in a curb on the consumption of beer and hard liquor on the Green campus...