Word: beers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night before going to a dinner party he swallowed a couple of pills made of tetraethyl-thiuram-disulfide; they were supposed to be good for intestinal worms. To his surprise, Dr. Jacobsen found that any form of alcohol revolted him. When he sipped even a small glass of beer, his face got red, his heart started to pound and he had trouble getting his breath...
...Hearing for Henry. A teetotaler who bars liquor ads (but not beer ads) from his paper, Mister J.N. is a tolerant man. When Henry Wallace came to town during his campaign, Heiskell gave him free time on the Gazette's radio station to make sure that he got a fair hearing. (It was Wallace's own fault that his interview with Executive Editor Harry Ashmore made damning reading in next day's Gazette...
...Cinemactress Esther Williams prepared a Hollywood opening for her new filling station: searchlights, beer, gardenias-and attendants in dinner jackets...
...course," said one. "Just the same, before the revolution they promised us that in the future it would be the masters' turn to sweep the streets and collect the garbage. Now what happens? We are still doing the dirty work." The other took a long draught of his beer. "Ah," he replied at last, "you seem to forget: we are now the masters...
Bulldog & Champagne. Kirkland, the champion Harvard house, was matched against Yale's best, Berkeley College. Before the game was over, half the Harvard team had paused for either a smoke or a beer: it was that kind of game. Kirkland won, 21-12. But before the sun went down on the Charles River, seven Yale college teams had beaten Harvard teams. That night in Boston nightspots, the strains of Bulldog, Bulldog drowned out Fair Harvard, possibly because Yale men go in more for that sort of thing...