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...gushily sentimental, fatuous, vulgar, idiotic, by advocating dressing up in colonial attire, getting sloppy guzzling old colonial grog in reconstructed 1776-style inns, rapturizing over the usual glamour figures and their myths. Even Jefferson on your cover would blush in his reluctance to be so glamorized...
...love this bonzer country This land of grog and honey Of wallaby and cockatoo Of shearing shed and dunny...
...miles south-southwest of Bermuda the seas were fairly calm, and passengers' morale was in most cases high as a kite. Surrounded by water, water everywhere, no one could complain that there was not a drop to drink. Ordering the bars open round the clock and all grog on the house, dapper Skipper Peter Jackson kept the bands going, the jollity flowing, for two drifting days. "It was all a little like Dunkirk," said one ship's officer. "You know, we English do have a talent for snatching triumph from the jaws of disaster...
MONDAY: B.C.--The First Thanksgiving. Grog! A prehistoric turkeyshoot for Harvard pre-schoolers of all classes. Cartoon. CH. 4. 8 p.m. Color...
Drinking during duty hours has long been outlawed in the armed forces; the daily grog ration, which persisted in the British navy until 1970, was abolished for U.S. seamen in the 19th century. But off-duty boozing is another matter. Waterfront bars stand ready to quench the thirsts of a long, dry cruise, while service clubs, which dispense top-quality liquor at bargain prices, encourage the heavy drinking that is almost endemic on military bases. The Pentagon estimates that there are between 50,000 and 115,000 alcoholics among the 2.4 million men in the armed forces, and alcoholism...