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...Young Vag cheering on the team from high on the fifty; Vag explaining the game; Vag shouting for Wintergreen; Vag taking a quick nip from his flask to celebrate a touchdown. Vag and Young Vag in the autumn sunset, following the Band out of the Stadium...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/27/1951 | See Source »

...Rites of Fall On football Saturdays many a football fan finds a spot of cheer in a nip from a bottle or flask. This week, for the fastidious fan who does not like it neat-but wants it neater-an enterprising Texas firm will hawk a "Survival Kit" before the Rice-Clemson game. The kit: a plastic bag containing twelve ice cubes, three bottles of soda, six paper cups and a bottle opener...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Rites of Fall | 10/1/1951 | See Source »

...contrast, the F. Scott Fitzgerald set seem intent on perpetuating the "twenties" and their attempts to revive the raccoon coat, hip-flask, Stutz Beareat era, although interesting as social history, seem to be destined for eventual frustration due to moths and the lack of spare parts...

Author: By Robert Marsh, | Title: Venerable Heaps Journey Homeward | 8/16/1951 | See Source »

...peak of condition to meet the Blue on Soldiers Field. But hard-plunging Yale backs gave the visitors a 13-0 win in a driving rain. Hopelessly cheering until the last play, the man of '26 lighted up a Melachrino, took another nip at his pocket flask, snuggled a little deeper into his raccoon coat, and brought his date into Boston to see the smash hit of the day, Mr. John Galsworthy's "Loyalties...

Author: By Malcolm D. Rivkin, | Title: Prohibition, Winning Football, Lowell Dispute Among Memories of 1926's First Three Terms | 6/18/1951 | See Source »

Horse-Painter Sir Alfred Munnings, 72, a onetime president of the academy, sounded an opening bugle offstage. He advised would-be visitors to "have a good stiff brandy & soda before you go. In fact, take a flask in your pocket." Lord Horder, 80, famed as King George VI's doctor and currently president of London's Cremation Society, declared himself "quite willing to stuff the canvases into the crematoria. I think I should be doing a public service." Aged showgoers hissed such epithets as "hideous!" "unutterable!" and "sacrilegious tommyrot!" One bewildered old boy in a bowler growled that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Good Old England | 1/29/1951 | See Source »

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