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...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...
...bliss of mellow afternoons and roistering evenings over the tables of the university pub. In the mild spring twilights, after a long stroll along the river, he would stride obliviously through the bustle of office-workers returning home, choose himself an obscure but well-placed table, order himself a pint of ale, and observe the passers-by with that careless insolence which is proper only to Vagabonds and dowagers. Or perhaps, driving in from a gay, day-long junketing in the newly green countryside, he and she would stop for a glass or two of sherry to cap off their...
...copies of the Congressional Record he read musty and long-disproved attacks on the personal integrity of Eugene Meyer, whom he called the "Kingfish of the Federal Reserve." Croaked Senator Long: "What he won't do ain't in the books! Yet we hunt boys with a pint of whiskey on the hip. What's the use of keeping Capone in Atlanta? What's the use of hunting Insull in Greece?" At 5 p. m., worn to a frazzle, he fairly begged: "It's time someone should move a recess." Montana's Wheeler obliged...
...cheap automobile; cooking his own meals; living in poor lodgings; mortgaging his future by borrowing money; combining with others in buying books, or buying none at all. "There are too many men," said Dean Rivenburg. "who are trying to live from week to week. They have a pint of milk and a slice of bread for breakfast and one meal...