Word: biergarten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lager beer and sawdust floors can be averted. The Vagabond has a definite ideal as to how things should be around the Square after repeal. In the matter of public drinking he acknowledges his debt to German and English sources: there ought to be at least one Biergarten, right in the heart of things, which might have to be closed-in from the wet and cold of the New England winter, but which, in spring, would expand luxuriously onto the sidewalk with its tables and chairs. To achieve the most pleasant contrast, he hopes it would be located next door...
...when the curtain went up at the Hollis, the flower-girls shouted their lovely and ethereal opening chorus, "List and Learn," too heartily and too fast; and the Gondolieri sang "Buon' giorno, signorine" like students at a Biergarten, "We're called Gondolieri" came off with speed and good-spirits, but without the whirling, infectious momentum that the song is capable of. In contrast to the chorus, the contadine Tessa and Gianetta showed from the moment that they were picked out of the crowd of flower-girls by the blindfolded young men that they were going to make the most...
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