Word: brewing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WRITERS GONE RUSTIC: "Five o'clock finds him up to his elbows in cows. 'The Boy and I finished the milking, and there, in sight of the cows, we sat down with a pail of the rich, warm brew and refreshed ourselves' . . . Then he adds, 'My, how The Boy is shooting up. He is already an inch taller than The Girl.' I don't know what gets into writers when they move to the country. They can't remember the names of their children...
...comments of one eminent Princeton observer indicate the storm did not brew over night. "There is a feeling among many Harvard men that Princeton places chief emphasis upon uniformity of type and manner of dress, not on things of the mind; that her outlook is immature and provincial, and that membership in the Big Three is Princeton's chief claim to glory...
...Taeke this grreen carrd," a friendly man with a red badge brogued. "It's forr the doorr prrize." These consisted, we discovered, of ten gallons of gas, which later went to a candidate's brother, a bottle of more attractive brew, which went to a candidate's wife, and a box of cigars, which went to a charming lass who apparently belonged...
...look younger. They consider themselves truly liberated. In the days when Cinemactress Jean Harlow showed women a thing or two about the man-catching qualities of platinum blonde hair, the business of hair-dyeing was a secretive thing reserved largely for showfolk. Women retired to back rooms to brew their metallic dyes; slinking out came eye-fluttering hussies. But nowadays, as one TV personality reports, "it's the same as changing the color of your nail polish. It doesn't have any more stigma than that...
Greatest variation is in the accompanying rites. Among some tribes curare is prepared by old women; in a few the witch doctor has a monopoly of the business, but usually all the wise old men get together to brew a batch. A widespread restriction is that the curare-makers shall operate in an isolated part of the forest; often they are required to refrain from sexual intercourse while a batch is being run, and women may be kept at a distance. In some tribes the work must be finished before the sun reaches the zenith (or interrupted then). Many refuse...