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Saying, that it was just too hot to go anywhere George Trudean and Lot Swain stayed close around Boston with the American Legion taking the supply of tonic in the glass, in the battle, and in the keg...

Author: By Jack Schindier, | Title: The Lucky Bag | 8/15/1944 | See Source »

...when the Nazis invaded, Lady Decies continued her society shenanigans, to the edification of provincial Americans. Her bejeweled presence kept society reporters scratching for phrases to surpass the brash New York Daily News's report of her wearing a tiara "the size of a nail keg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 26, 1944 | 6/26/1944 | See Source »

Spud-nosed, publicity-wise W. C. Fields, charged with stealing $20,000 worth of ideas from Writer Harry Yadkoe and using them in You Can't Cheat an Honest Man, appeared in court with a keg-shaped thermos from which he refueled from time to time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Apr. 12, 1943 | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

Scoring four times in the first minute of play, the Plympton Street All Stars coasted on their laurels and an empty keg of Pabst Blue Ribbon the rest of the way. The first score, chalked up 30 seconds before the opening whistle, came about after a pass, a punt, a prayer, and a foul ball into the left field stands. Refusing to use his anti-tank division until the opening of a second front, Hesdman Rocknelberry Fenn used three full teams and an umpire in subaning the hapless Hanoverians...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Daily Dartmouth Goes Under By Poonish Score, 23 to 2 | 10/17/1942 | See Source »

Northern Europe? British bombers over Oslo (see p. 28), were enough to prove again that Norway was a powder keg under the occupying Nazis, awaiting only the Allied match. A factor in Allied calculations, well known to the Germans, was the U.S. P-38, a fighter plane able to fly from Iceland or Britain to a landing point in Norway, thus enormously extending the feasible area of invasion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STRATEGY: Give Us a Sign | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

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