Word: pints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More power to May Breen for her stand (as reported in your issue of Dec. 21) in demanding recognition by American Federation of Musicians for ukuleles; and I trust that I will not be out of tune in suggesting that in spite of our half-pint size there is just as much music in us as there is in a lot of bass horns, piccolos, saxophones and other instruments I have known...
...with his grey felt hat battered out of shape by low beams. In the centre of the gun-deck President Hoover stopped to gaze at a brassbound barrel marked: GROG TUB. Commander Louis Gulliver explained that from it used to come the sailors' daily ration of a half-pint of strong drink. The President nodded, passed on silently...
...London the price of goats and goat's milk has gone up. At Kingsley Hall, where St. Gandhi sleeps and spins, a secretary disclosed that during the first days of his visit goat's milk was hard to get and cost about four shillings ($1) a pint, could be found only in wholesale apothecary shops dealing in roots, herbs and obscure drugs...
Cordial shops sell nonalcoholic vermouth and cordials. They also sell the "imported" kind. Or they will sell you nonalcoholic vermouth and a pint of alcohol and tell you how to mix them. Some of them take orders for "Canadian" beer, to be delivered by the case. Whiskeys are frankly of local manufacture. Said a cordial shop clerk last week: "You can't get any better whiskey than this [King George] whiskey. The man that made this whiskey has been making whiskey ever since Prohibition...
Gasoline will be taxed 4¢ more a gallon. All entertainment taxes are raised to 16?%. Tobacco will be taxed 1¢ more an ounce, beer 2¢ more a pint...