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Word: brews (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...experience of Yale, if no more than a fiction, is a lesson for all time. With the pride of crudition, it sponsors chose for its motto a high-sounding. He brew phrase; but instead of some such noble sentiment as "Lux of Veritas", malicious scholars are rumored to, have proved that the phrase means "Farmers and Swindlers". Namers of summer cottages, and all others who are lured by the lust for distinctive words, will do well to take warning. A spade is not always a spade...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WORDS AND THEIR WAYS | 5/14/1923 | See Source »

...simple. The type of immigrant has changed, however, and the cities are becoming filled with a dangerous class of foreigner, the producer of crime waves and bomb plots. With these things in view, the sieve-like quality shown by our border and port officials is at least deplorable. The brew in the melting pot, once looked upon with such pride and called democracy, needs little more seasoning to change its nature entirely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BUBBLE, BUBBLE! | 4/4/1923 | See Source »

...stopped in the name of the law if not of morality. For those future leaders in the republic thus to be wanton law-breakers is bad practice. They have shown that they are able to do it, and are; therefore, as smart as the folks who dispense their home brew. Freshmen have more than done justice to themselves in that respect. But the burning question--the terrible question that confronts the scores who have taken their first taste of intemperate joy is: are they resigned to enslave themselves to the degrading life of a liquor taster; with its inevitable, base...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 11/30/1921 | See Source »

...Room of the Widener Library. The collection includes first edition copies of "Kubla Klan", "Christabel", "The Frlend", and "Remorse"; the title page of "Remorse" is covered with writing in the author's hand. In addition there is a page from Coleridge's note book containing recipes for making home-brew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RARE COPIES OF WORDSWORTH AND COLERIDGE EXHIBITED | 11/30/1921 | See Source »

...audience at Keith's on Monday night was bombarded with prohibition jokes. Two of the acts required a state of inebriation on the part of the actors to be intelligible. While a third was devoted largely to the topic of home brew. A fine time, however, was had by all, in spite of that. The Four Mortons in a golf skit entitled "Wearing Out the Green" and Will Gressy and Blanche Dayne divide the prize for being old favorites. Patricola sings with a vim and a remarkably clear enunciation; she deserves all the applause given her. Ernest Hall, song writer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Prohibition at Keith's | 10/19/1921 | See Source »

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