Word: ginger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Theatre Guild on the Air (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). The Barker, with Paul Douglas and Ginger Rogers...
...39th* hole, Stranahan sliced his drive out of bounds and it was all over. Sam, who takes his athletic conditioning almost as seriously as Stranahan (no smoking or drinking), celebrated his victory with a glass of ginger ale spiked with lemon. Said Sam: "I won this tournament for my brother Joe. I really mean it. He was killed fighting in Germany with the 8th Division. He was a greater golfer than I'll ever...
...would rather welcome them. One would point out handsome new buildings to them, and explain the workings of the cyclotron and the calculator to their families. One would tell them why some of the Yard's old trees have been felled, and why the ginger bread is missing from the Memorial Hall tower. One would be mindful the whole while that changes are relative; when weighed against all that Harvard means to its students and alumni, they hardly jiggle the scale...
Cornered by a direct question, Kentucky's Alben Berkley made an admission: yes, it is true that he mixes ginger ale with his bourbon. "The ginger ale may not do much for the bourbon," the Veep explained, "but the bourbon certainly does something for the ginger...
Exit Beer. When Prohibition came, President August said: "We'll make shoelaces if we have to, but I'll never close this plant." Anheuser-Busch never had to make shoelaces, but it made "Bevo" (an unfermented, nonalcoholic drink that was supposed to taste like beer), near-beer, ginger ale, Grape Bouquet, root beer, "Kaffo" (a syrup for iced coffee), Busch "Tee," Carcho (a chocolate drink), starch, dextrine, corn products, malt syrup (for home brewing), and even refrigerator truck bodies and ice cream freezing units. In the end, it was yeast that pulled the company through, and today...