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...cornet. Quick to repeat a good thing, he sent two similar portraits to this year's Burlington House. Best was Brother Fetch, a London commissionaire in full regalia of the Order of Buffaloes, elegantly curling his buffalo horn mustachios and elegantly grasping a white kid glove and a pint of bitters in his right hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: British Academy | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

...American promotion calls it "not unlike the strains of a symphony in which one may easily recognize the tones of more than one instrument, although all are joined harmoniously in the richness of modulated music." Last week 100,000 gals. were ready for U. S. distribution at $1.44 per pint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Cheerful Cheer | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...four lone bottles credited to Princeton show that President Dodds' request must have had some effect. No other team this fall, or for many years, has ever left such a small and shoddy monument to its entertainment by fair Harvard, as Princeton's two pint botties and the robust quart. Amherst, Brown, and Dartmouth all left approximately twenty-five times as many dead men, that is, about 100. In all of these games Harvard's consumption was apparently far below what greeted the Tiger, for the arrival of the Nassau delegation upped the Crimson empties by about fifty per cent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton Men Sacrifice a Scant Two Pints to Bacchus During Stadium Game | 11/3/1936 | See Source »

...Johnson, onetime (1923-25) Farmer-Labor Senator from Minnesota; of pneumonia; at Litchfield. A homespun Swedish immigrant, he was proud of his Washington nickname of "yenerally speaking Yonson." Lured into a cow-milking contest once with the late Secretary of Agriculture Henry Cantwell Wallace, he lost by half-a-pint, protested his cow had been milked previously...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 21, 1936 | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

Other silver included the flagons and chalices given Christ Church, Cambridge, by King William and Queen Mary; a collection of tankards varying in capacity from one pint to a quart and a half; the magnificant Stoughton Cup; and numerous flighting fixtures--some of which even used bear grease...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROBINSON EXHIBITS EARLY AMERICANISM | 9/16/1936 | See Source »

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