Word: beers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your facts were not only untrue but were vulgar to the extreme. Why did you burlesque me with beer drinking? Although I do not dislike the beverage, I did not at any time make reference to drinking gallons of it. I was misquoted throughout the entire article, especially the part which said: "They want to show those films through the colonies and say 'Look what we have done for Dunbar' - but it is not the British who have done it for me, it is the Americans...
...section headed "Up From the Ape" the poll aims to determine whether the subject is a confirmed beer guzzler, a sipper only on social occasion, or among those who soak up hard "likker" by the quart in solitary confinement...
...canned music to silent hotels, A.F.L. electricians pledged themselves not to install jukeboxes. As Petrillo, dressed in two-tone shoes and a cream-colored silk shirt, made the rounds of unmusical bars, another friendly columnist, the New York Post's Earl Wilson, stalked him behind a glass of beer at Toots Shor's non-union spot...
...becois poured into town-children, priests, nuns, farmers from Beauce and Beaupré. On the fairgrounds down on the flats of St. François parish they drank gallons of petite bière d'épinette, a mild sort of Gallic root beer; ate tons of frites (French fried potatoes); the children rode the miniature airplanes and the loop-the-loops, jubilantly dizzy...
...themselves, the more serious-minded comrades played chess with the more serious-minded Americans and Britons; the less serious-minded joined in nightly howling at the bar or entered Ping-pong games involving ten nationalities and scoring in four languages. Even when the British playfully threw glasses of beer at the Russians from the top of a staircase, there was no international crisis. Things were less friendly in the villa, where the women of the press corps were quartered. There American newshens accused both French and Russian ladies (who greatly outnumbered them) of establishing spheres of influence over the bathrooms...