Word: beers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only one Commie candidate was elected to any of the 42 posts on governing bodies and committees. When it was all over, burly Will Lawther, National Union of Mineworkers' anti-Communist president and newly elected head of the T.U.C., sprawled triumphantly over a half pint of beer. "Yer'd have thoert they woor blooody Nazzies," said Will Lawther, "th' way they've been schemin' and skirmishin'-but we've got th' blighters proper licked...
...Hearstpapers were "lousy" and chatted "with a last shot of Canadian Club under our belts." In Salzburg, he showed that he could be one of the boys by riding through the streets late at night, singing with a truckload of students. And he had "one gay moment" at a beer party when fellow U.S. Lecturer Alfred Kazin led the group in singing the Internationale...
Manhattan Adman Arthur W. Collins, 45, who thought up Kaleidoscope, left the New York Sun two years ago to turn his idea into a magazine. From such backers as Motor Heir Jack F. Chrysler, Tobacco Heir Angier Biddle Duke and Milwaukeean Joseph E. Uihlein Jr. (Schlitz beer), he got more than $500,000. But until he lured buxom Martha Stout away from the editorship of Hearst's Junior Bazaar, Collins had no magazine...
...Swiss dentists reported their impressions of Los Angeles. Said Dr. Georges Lebet: "Everything here is automatic. Automatic machines toast your bread, pour your soft drinks, change your phonograph records, even shave your face." Said Dr. P. H. Lugeon: "Your beer is nearly frozen. Your beefsteak, vegetables, milk, are frozen nearly hard. Everything is refrigerated, even your young ladies...
Family Circle. In Cleveland, Beer-Parlor Owner Stanley Siemen sued his in-laws for alienation of affections, charged that they had encouraged his wife to smooch the customers into buying more drinks...