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...perfect copy of Dickens' "Pickwick Papers" for $28,000. If money can be considered a criterion of any value, it apparently indicates in this case that the plump little Mr. Pickwick still does not fall to cut a favorable figure, while the Messrs. Weller and Snodgrass empty the wine keg. Such characters as these are too well established in literature to be dislodged by any trifling fancies of the time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRICE OF INK | 1/11/1929 | See Source »

...cabalistic tortures in the basement of the Delta Nu house. of winning the game for dear old Dearold. comes a college picture in which real college boys, bedrooms, dining halls and bleachers are photographed, and as an accompaniment to which an authentic Princeton locomotive and the song "One Keg of Beer for the Four of Us," sung by authentic Princeton undergraduates, is recorded on a sound device...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Nov. 5, 1928 | 11/5/1928 | See Source »

Muscular Anesthesia. In rowdy secret society initiations the novice, standing rigidly erect, arms at sides, is made to inhale very deeply and hold his breath. As his face grows red and his eyes bulge, great arms glide around his chest, like brewers' clamps over a beer keg. Just as the initiant feels like the inflated frog of Aesop's fairy tale, the great arms squeeze; the victim drops heavily, rendered unconscious by muscular anesthesia. This initiation "stunt," Professor Arno Benedict Luckhardt of the University of Chicago reminded the Academy, is dangerous to a person with a weak heart. The sudden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: National Academy | 10/31/1927 | See Source »

...Staggerbears inhabited the Happy Hills country where they roamed the shady dells covered with the shining mahogany grass where the fizzbells bloomed or rambled in the glades where there was a musical tinkle dripping from the keg trees. The streams gurgled with ice water, the brandy bees buzzed over the wild eggnog vines and the rumroots grew juicy in the earth beneath the sherry berry thickets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Staggerbear & Guzzlenot | 10/24/1927 | See Source »

...Saphead Dowse [TIME, June 13], when up pops saphead John Muller (TIME, June 20) who forgets that our popular American, Colonel Lindbergh, made the New York-to-Paris flight with only three sandwiches and a bottle of milk.* What German could accomplish this wonderful feat with less than a keg of beer, a barrel of sauerkraut and a whole roast pig ? We Americans do first and talk afterwards, that is why we were so successful in the World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 11, 1927 | 7/11/1927 | See Source »

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