Word: lager
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...equal upper & lower petals unlike most orchids, and attenuated side petals that fell like walrus mustaches. It was Cyprepedium Rothschildianum, rarest orchid at the Show, and it had won the prize as the best specimen orchid plant shown by a commercial grower. The little old man was John Emil Lager, orchid-hunter, aged 72. He had grown the Rarest Orchid in his Lager & Hurrell hothouses in Summit, N. J. where grow nothing but orchids. Last week his Show entry of 133 plants, 60 varieties, won a special award as the finest commercial orchid exhibit...
...nothing to be done about the general situation, he realizes, the flood gates of 3.2 per cent beer will doubtless soon be opened upon the whole nation. But in Cambridge, with a faculty and a student body supposedly versed in liquid lore, a complete return to the era of lager beer and sawdust floors can be averted. The Vagabond has a definite ideal as to how things should be around the Square after repeal. In the matter of public drinking he acknowledges his debt to German and English sources: there ought to be at least one Biergarten, right...
...effect, amends only those parts of the Volstead Act which today limit the alcoholic content of "beer, lager beer, ale, porter" to ½%. Whiskey, gin, rum, wine and the like are still left legally taboo. Untouched are the scale of penalties for Prohibition violations. As large and complex as ever are the restrictions on industrial alcohol. H. R. 13,312, with many a change in definition, does nothing more than set up a complete legal exception for 3.2% beer from the 18th Amendment. To raise revenue it taxes the new beer $5 per bbl.?the brewers' chosen figure?thus...
...proposed beer bill soon to be brought up in the Senate has several unsatisfactory features, but never-the-less it is important as a revenue producing measure. This bill, written by Senator Walsh of Massachusetts, provides for the sale and manufacture of "beer, ale, porter, bock, stout, lager, or a name similar thereto." With the above-named beverages taken out of the prohibition amendment, no other federal legislation would be necessary, since there is an existing tax of six dollars a barrel on beer on one hand, and the Webb-Kenyen act protecting-dry states on the other...
Illinois issued charters to a dozen new Chicago breweries bearing such names as Citizens, Eagle, Old Style Lager, Fortune. Chicago's Bohemian-born Mayor Cermak, through a friend, closed a deal for U. s' rights to the product of Pilsen...