Word: brew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That policy means that allowances of the pre-exam brew, already restricted to one a meal, may be lowered to two-cups a day. Any such move, however, would be temporary, and final action will depend on the working of the new coffee rationing plan which starts November...
...Married A Witch (United Artists) is a Sabbath brew made by mixing the somewhat corn-fed satiric fantasy of the late Thorne Smith (Topper) with the ultrasophisticated fantastic satire of Director Rene Clair (Le Million). The comedy is either barn-broad or razor-sharp and the cast who serve this cider-&-absinthe cocktail make it more than easy to take...
...bottles of the elderberry arsonic brew, left over from last fall's party for the cast of "Arsenic and Old Lace," will be available in the library for the various and sundry editors of Mother Advocate's rivals...
Strip for Action (by Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse; produced by Oscar Serlin, Lindsay & Crouse) is a ramshackle play and an uproarious evening. Playwrights Lindsay & Crouse plunged into work with a good idea: turning loose a burlesque troupe in an army camp. To this half-tropical, half-topical brew they add colorfulness, craziness, sex and laughs-they know...
...woods to treat themselves with "mercurials dissolved in vodka." Moonshining was also banned, but Baranov himself kept "a vat of crab apples, rye meal, and cranberries fermenting with kvass-yeast. Any man off duty was welcome to as much of the stuff as he could hold." This brew supposedly prevented scurvy, certainly helped morale. Said Washington Irving: "He is continually giving entertainment by way of parade, and if you do not drink raw rum and boiling punch as strong as sulfur he will insult...