Word: beers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From Beer to Bali. The porch at Provincetown was the end of a long, winding trail. Born in Russia, Sterne came to the U.S. at eleven, earned his living as a Third Avenue bartender. The proprietor gave him his first painting commission: a picture of a cool, foamy stein of beer, labeled "5 Cents." In his off-hours, Sterne went to art school. He studied anatomy under Thomas Eakins, won a traveling scholarship which took him back to Europe...
...asked Caen to come down for a drink. "I thought they were being good guys," he says, "but they slipped me a Mickey." Today he is more careful about the company he keeps. He makes $24,700 a year from the Chronicle and a weekly radio program for a beer sponsor (titled What's Brewing in San Francisco). He can afford to turn down handsome offers from Hearst's rival Examiner, whose company he does not wish to keep...
...Delta plane was not alone in the sunny morning sky over the field. In for a landing, too, came a small private plane piloted by a Columbus beer dealer, Joseph C. Fussell, 42. Before either pilot saw the other-or had time to do anything about it-the small plane drove at right angles into the big one's tail. Only 30 feet off the ground, the two planes bucked up like broncos, then crashed together on to runway No. 5, burst into bright flame. Everyone in both planes was killed...
...almost like Christmas, that night at Jim Downey's place. The old saloon was decked out in bunting and all the regulars were in, having a singsong. And there was Jim himself passing out creamy pints, on the house, for all the world as if beer was water from the town well. "By the holy," said the men of Dun Laoghaire (Kingstown that was), "if it isn't the birthday of a strike Jim's celebratin', and his place the one that's struck." Outside the pickets paused now & then...
...York Mirror revealed that Satira's father, "a law-abiding apothecary," had "blown the contents of his piggy bank" to go to her aid. "Take it easy on my Dad," she told the Mirror. "He's never been outside Toledo. . . . Please buy him a beer." In court she exposed her back ("an official striptease," said one leering account) to show the judge and photographers her bruises...