Word: cask
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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August Janssen, the Dutch restaurateur who owes much of his fame to the slogan "Janssen Wants to See You,'' has had two great disappointments in his profitable life. One came with Prohibition when the chimes which accompanied the broaching of a cask of beer were stilled. The other was when his son Werner refused his offer of $250,000 to give up a musical career. When Werner Janssen left Dartmouth he took a $3-a-night job playing the piano in Leo Reisman's band in Boston. He drifted to Manhattan, conducted in cinemansions, wrote popular tunes...
...brain feels as though a hammer were pounding on the skull, or as though a drill were grinding into the bone. Or an iron hoop seems to tighten around the head. Or the bones of the skull seem about to burst apart like the staves of an overfilled cask. Usually the sickening pain stays to one side of the head. ("Migraine" comes from Latin hemicrania, "half-head.") With many victims the pain shifts around, may even travel down to the neck, shoulders, arms. The skin, particularly the scalp, may be unusually sensitive. Touch, sound, sight vex the victim...
Spirits started in the wood last January now should be nearing potability. Last week at dinners in Detroit, Cleveland and Manhattan, young and youngish socialites pulled the bungs, not from swashing charred kegs but from the cask of obscurity within which they have been maturing a potent anti-Prohibition organization, the Crusaders, which they laid down in Cleveland at the first of the year (TIME, Jan. 27). Mostly able sons of able fathers, mostly college graduates, their average age about 35 years, they made robust speeches against Prohibition's evils, planned an ambitious political campaign, a drive for membership...
German winegrowers, too, complained last week of low prices, overproduction. Into Berlin's famed Potsdamer Platz marched one Josef Putz, Moselle Valley vintner, pushing a large cask of Moselle in front of him. On each of the cask's heads were inscribed pleas to drink more Moselle, eschew beer and foreign wines. As a mark of his sincerity Cask-Pusher Putz had already pushed his cask from Coblenz to Cologne to Hamburg to Berlin (approximately...
...Imperial Gift: A 20-gallon cask of Japanese...