Word: beers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although library officials reported a slackening of intellectual activity, local saloon keepers jingled cash-registers to an October high. "This is good beer weather," one purveyor said...
...will now bless the water, the candles, the medals." Thousands of hands were instantly stretched overhead, and in the shabby cobbled street, flanked on each side by one-story stucco houses, all built on stilts, one saw only the waving uncorked bottles-beer bottles, whiskey bottles, thermos jugs, casks and demijohns. Some people held up candles, some picture postcards of Padre Antonio, some cheap Virgin Mary medallions...
...first,, no one quite believed Yankee Boss Larry MacPhail when he said he was through (TIME, Oct. 13). Not that MacPhail, tearful and waving an empty beer bottle, had not made it plain: "That's it, goddamit, that's my retirement," he roared in the first moment of the Yankees' World Series victory. Even Dan Topping and Del Webb, Larry's wealthy co-partners, were disbelieving. "He's a sentimental fellow," said Topping. "I wouldn't put too much stock in what he's saying...
...once said, "that is going to separate me from the common people who may need my help. I have D.D. degrees from two colleges, but they have never been used on my stationery-they are brand-new." Once when he visited President Roosevelt after the legalization of 3.2% beer, Baptist Johnson cracked: "Mr. President, we are back...
What the hell, it was too hot for football, anyway. Hour exams, tutorial, and that fourth course he hadn't sampled yet needed attention. You, that was it. He would curl up with a little cool beer and a book this afternoon. Vag chuckled at the thought of a B- or two in November to throw at his family. Then he noticed the three couples ahead of him, and the guy across the street with the familiar packages under his arm. He remembered something about a party "after the game." Vag, the student, was left in a phone booth...