Word: beers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...waitress in a Boylston Street delicatessen suggested that students might just as well come there in their pajamas. "Our tips depend on a rapid turnover of customers. The Harvard fellows come in and spend three hours over a sandwich and beer, and then walk out without leaving a cent," she declared...
Service. In Trenton, N.J., Edward Wiley wandered into police headquarters, loudly ordered a beer, was served with two months in jail, for drunkenness...
This week the United Kingdom buckled down to work again. After three fuelless weeks, factories in the London area and the northwest could resume operations, but home use was still curtailed. Snow and ice were thawing, coal moving. Brewers were resuming beer production. Britons felt a little better...
Oxonian wits used to say, "At Cambridge they have beer and talk, at Oxford sherry and conversation." But the old saw has lost its teeth: at Oxford last week there was practically no sherry, only a little beer, and not even much talk. Everybody was too busy swotting (Oxonian for hitting the books). It was also a week in which Oxford took one more long step away from its classical past...
Totaling up their liquid assets late last night, directors of the CRIMSON'S spring competition unearthed a few stray bottles of eight year old lager beer and announced that opportunities for late-comers to try their hand at the newspaper game were still open...