Word: beers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bermuda he shuns taxicabs and put-puts around on rented motor scooters. In the Virgin Islands he ducks the fancy restaurants and lunches on a sandwich at the beach. In Puerto Rico he chooses a poolside beer over a banana daiquiri. His credentials: an economy-flight air ticket and a fistful of travel-agency coupons. This is the summer tourist. And thrifty though he may be, he is creating a bustling new industry from Bermuda and the Caribbean west to Mexico-a sun belt better known for its winter lures than its summer tours. Says a busy Nassau hotel manager...
...about 75 other families of the same name, live in Walldorf, West Germany. They were the ones fur-trading Millionaire John Jacob Astor left behind to go to America in 1783. And on the 200th birthday of "the great Dollarmacher," the Walldorfers threw a week-long party, drank beer, and recalled the town legend of how old John Jacob arrived for his one return visit: he was wearing humble clothes and was scorned as a failure, whereupon he stormed out of town to return riding in an elegant landau attended by a huge staff of servants. It was a grand...
Among the woollier samples: Q. How do you make an elephant float? A. With two scoops of ice cream, an elephant and some root beer...
...from the papers and from Japan's TV and radio stations were on duty. Some whiled away the time with games of chess and mahjongg inside the tents. Others dozed on cots or chatted idly with their colleagues, trying to beat the summer heat with bottles of cold beer, which they bring to tento mura by the case. When word was flashed by walkie-talkie radio from the agent inside the P.M.'s foyer, the press corps rushed out to extract the news from Ikeda's latest visitor...
...Brando. He does solicit the comparison, but happily he also displays two striking qualities of his own: a crude but considerable sense of gesture and violent vitality. He also has the careless Irish charm. At a rich man's party, the big slummox grabs a bottle of beer and then, grand as a lord, leans over and uses the nearest Bentley for a bottle opener...