Word: beers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...open Russian face, not necessarily with an uplifted bulbous nose. He also has an open soul. He is not cold like Petersburg people-he is passionate and sincere. He keeps all holidays and fast days, but during Muslenitsa (butterdish time; i.e., carnival) he stuffs himself with bliny, drinks beer and vodka until he is dizzy, rides around in sleighs, shouts, plays the accordion and-sins. A Muscovite says, 'If one doesn't sin one cannot repent, and if one doesn't repent one cannot be saved...
...deal is not all beer & skittles. Latin America, like Canada, trades in U.S. dollars. Because their dollar supply is dwindling, all countries except Venezuela and Cuba are restricting imports. That means fewer profitable trips for Canada's traveling salesmen. But they are not downhearted. Said Canada's Trade Minister James Angus MacKinnon last week: "The lively interest . . . both in this country and in the Latin American republics, in what each has to offer the other . . . has been extremely gratifying...
...Lincoln Park, an amusement park seven miles out of town. There 1,500 select guests, Democrats and Republicans, sipped Martinis and Manhattans out of paper cups in a big dance hall. Then they all girded on "Joe Martin Day" aprons and addressed themselves to the corn, clams, lobsters and beer of a traditional New England clambake. Joe, an old hand at this sort of thing, expertly did away with a heap of clams and half a lobster. Licking buttery fingers, the crowd sang...
...liked him. Said Peru's slim Foreign Minister Enrique Garcia Sayan: "He has gone far beyond the needs of diplomatic good taste." Flanked by Armour and Donnelly, Marshall paid a visit to Quitandinha's Suite 400, the rooms of Argentine Foreign Minister Juan Bramuglia. The Argentines served beer, whiskey, potato chips, but the abstemious Marshall took nothing. When he left, an Argentine said: "The conference is all fixed...
Schroeder likes to pull on a pipe; Kramer doesn't smoke. Big Jake's one vice is betting: he will bet anybody on anything. He once won $20 from friends who bet he couldn't down a jigger of beer a minute for 80 minutes. He likes people, poker, bow ties, Joe DiMaggio, and shop talk like "that day at Rye when big Frank Shields grabbed Bitsy Grant by the belt and held him out a second-story window...