Word: beers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chaser. In Battle Mountain, Nev., a patient cop warned Frank Pace the first time he did it, pinched him 20 minutes later when Pace landed his plane, taxied down Main Street, parked in front of a tavern and strolled in for a beer...
Jessica got delegates out for meetings despite the withering summer heat and a free flow of Scotch, rye, gin and beer. Every morning, as a reminder of the day's program, she had chummily-worded Mimeographed bulletins slipped under hotel-room doors. "Pullleezzzee Gentlemen," the Thursday conference bulletin began. "The session opens at 9:30 this morning. We know it's a crime on a Thursday after a Wednesday night but les affaires sont les affaires...
...show didn't sell well; neither did a subsequent one. In 1919 some of his friends-including Sickert and Max Beer-bohm-gave Walter Greaves a big dinner and a check for ?150. He died, grey and penniless, in 1930 in a London almshouse, dejected because the authorities would not let him blacken his hair, so that it would be like Whistler...
Young Henry Ford gave a big business lunch last week. The lunch was alfresco, at his onetime summer home at Deer Lake Farms, near Detroit. Under tents, Young Henry and 300 guests quaffed beer and cocktails, munched cold meats and salad, buffet-style, then watched a new Ford tractor plow the hard clay of the field outside. Said Young Henry, introducing his latest product: "Since the days of my grandfather ... we have always had one foot in the soil, and one foot in industry. We will continue that policy...
...within the dull plot, which seems to have been doped out by two cynical script-writers over a short beer, is some worthwhile stuff. The photography is for the most part excellent, especially a scene of a biplane disintegrating in the air in a thunderstorm. In fact, the parts of the movie that concern the flying are all good. Howard Da Silva, playing the worried owner of the airlines, is natural and convincing. William Bendix takes over every scene in which he is, as a hedgehopping pilot and a friend of the family. One wishes that the movie had stuck...