Word: beers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hairpins & Toothpicks. Next morning, refreshed by a Russian breakfast of beer, schnapps, sausages, fried potatoes and more schnapps, we went out to see these Germans by daylight and found them like all Germans-shabby. Their faces were grey, for there is little soap for scrubbings. When they gather in crowds, as at the theater, they have a strong, sour smell. The Russian zone is not well fed, although it eats better than the American or the British...
...profiled by a friend recently turned journalist, looked more than ever like a pretty, highly eligible London girl of 20. She likes dancing, housework (especially washing-up), Errol Flynn, pink, the historical novels of Daphne du Maurier, medium-high heels, jazz (on a constantly playing bedroom radio), ginger beer (better than wine or liquor), hats. She is good at ballroom chatter; hasn't a car, but sometimes borrows father's; hands down dresses to sister Margaret Rose; takes it for granted that she will some day marry and have children. And she can cook...
...spiraling inflation, the first signs of which appeared last week like mushrooms after a spring rain. By the end of last week, prices had inched up throughout the country, steak to two dollars a pound, butter to seventy-five cents. On the local scene, food prices in Harvard Square beer parlors and short order places quietly went up a nickel here, a dime there. Chicken feed, a mere beginning...
...Beer & Blue Laws. On May 29, when it looked as if the club would set a new record for games lost, youthful Owner Bob Carpenter Jr. (whose father, a Du Pont vice president, had bought him the club) made a crucial decision. The usual fire-the-manager cries were being heard and doing team morale no good. Carpenter suddenly announced that he was not only keeping Ben Chapman but had signed him for 1947 too. From then on, Chapman was able to get what he needed from his boys. Ex-Cincinnati slugger Frank McCormick (who cost $40,000) began knocking...
...they beat the Pirates and climbed out of the National League basement, the Phillies wrecked the locker-room. A cellar door was burned in celebration. Manager Chapman broke a rule and served the team beer. Four days later they climbed to sixth place. For the first time people began buying Philly pennants from peddlers outside the park. When a Sunday game with Cincinnati was called after eleven innings with the score tied, State Assemblyman Joe Scanlon, sensing a popular issue, set about changing Pennsylvania's Sunday Blue...