Word: pint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...oyster. I think that my own case, though I may not deal with the material so cleverly as the oyster does, is the latter; because I have seldom written poetry unless I was rather out of health, and the experience, though pleasurable, was generally agitating and exhausting." After a pint of beer for lunch he would go for a long walk, "thinking of nothing in particular"; sometimes a line or two, sometimes a whole stanza would come into his mind. When he got home he would write down what had come to him, leaving the gaps to be filled...
...stored at least four years before sale under government seal. Only four and one-half million gallons, little over a year's estimated demand, of such bonded drinks legally exist. But that supply is 16 and more years old. Wholesale prices quoted last week for cases of 24 pint bottles included: WTood-ford Bourbon $27.50, King Cole Bourbon $35, Old Quaker Bourbon $38.50, Old Quaker Rye $42.50, Golden Wedding $43.50, Gibson $45 to $49-50, and $53-50 for Old Overholt, the good red liquor which, with Andrew William Mellon's aid, helped found the fortune...
...announcement that there would be no provision for the sinking fund to retire the national debt, which last year bit ?32,500,000 out of the Budget. Penny a Pint. As far as the British taxpayer was concerned, there was only one encouraging word in the Budget, that was Beer. The income tax remained at its old basic tax rate of five shillings in the pound-25%, the highest income tax in the world, though Chancellor Chamberlain offered a slight sop by restoring the old method of collecting in equal half-yearly installments instead of demanding three-quarters...
...victory outmodes many a sorry practice of the past decade. John Doctor need no longer risk prison by selling his prescription blanks to druggists. The amateur cellarer need no longer cut a pint of genuine, drugstore rye with alcohol, water and sherry to get a gallon of drink with a palatable rye flavor. The druggist may cast off his furtiveness, again function as a respectable businessman...
...year Brigadier Gibbon was helped by W. Palmer Mellen, young New Yorker who stroked the Oxford crew that won in 1923. Puzzled by the continued failure of their boat, old Oxonians last week fell back on the suggestion of feeding the oarsmen more than their usual rations of a pint and a half of ale and a glass of port daily for a month before the race, to reduce their "conviction of inferiority...