Word: beers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strikers struck up friendships over mugs of tea and ale. The attitude: "We don't bear the boys any grudge; they can't help but do what they're told." At Smithfield's nearby mahogany-and-gilt pub, "The Hope," soldiers and strikers sipped beer together. Said a happy Guardsman: "It makes a change. If we weren't working here, we'd be square-bashing [squad drilling]. Best part about this is the expression on the faces of the housewives when we deliver the goods...
Docker's Saturday Night. Some evenings Catalino likes to put on his suit, stop for a beer at the corner bodega, and then take a turn at the rumba at the neighborhood dance hall. More often lately he has hurried away to a union meeting. But, though Catalino is a good unionist, forking up 30? a day for dues and the benefit fund, and never failing to consult his delegate on all important matters, he is no Communist. He voted for Grau and the Autentico Party at the last elections, and he goes to church, though not quite...
...morning the cook must take a streetcar to the hospital to see if she can get some water. She usually returns late and without any, so we have lunch at 4 p.m. without a drop to wash our hands. . . . Whenever I need a shave, I buy a bottle of beer...
...Walker, Labour Member of Parliament since 1945 and one of the youngest men in the British Cabinet, will describe successes and failures of the Labour Party's legislative program at a meeting sponsored by the Liberal Union tonight at 8 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall. Samuel H. Beer, assistant professor of Government, will introduce the speaker...
...Beer, however, will not be served as before unless there is a definite demand for it, Durant said in making the statement, since the small consumption indicated by previous experience would not make it worthwhile to take out a malt beverage license...