Word: chaser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Condon calls his new jazz temple "Town Hall with booze." ("Our music stimulates drinking. They figure in order to understand it, they got to do like the fellow playing it.") Few people, even among fellow players, follow Condon's own habits: boilermakers (whiskey with a beer chaser) at the bar and milk at home (he thinks milk will keep away ulcers...
...compound jealousy over a wolf in refugee's clothing (Carl Esmond) and Mr. Tracy's former sweetheart, who appears only insofar as Miss Hepburn malignantly, funnily parodies her mannerisms, which is appearance enough. On the sidelines the widow's boozy cousin (Keenan Wynn) and a man-chaser vaguely identified as a real-estate agent (Lucille Ball) hang around with little to do but be likable, which they seem to find easy...
...them for a bottle of Astringosol," suggests a Gold Coaster. "Then mutter, under your breath of course, 'got any weeds?' Naturally, you accumulate a staggering heard of Astringosol, but I find it an excellent chaser for my Camel. This cigarette problem is nothing short of a gold-mine for the small drug companies...
Last week Harry J. Baker was in Matanuska, while officers at army posts and naval bases throughout the territory clamored for his services. Wherever he goes, people stop him on the street, begging for appointments. Within the past month, traveling by PT boat, barge and sub chaser, he has ranged as far as Adak in the Aleutians...
...nucleus about which to form his ball club Coach Stahl has only three veterans of last summer's team. Sherm Clark, Bill Lutz, and Slats Slattery. Clark is a fly chaser, Slattery plays first, and Lutz holds down the hot corner. Most of the candidates for the team are V-12ers, however, and it remains to be seen what kind of talent the Navy has brought to Harvard...