Word: soda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soviet gods, and hung on buildings. Materials and labor skills which could have made houses everyone needed were used to construct gay, quaint booths for tea street fairs, where felt-booted citizens who tired of street dancing in the light November slush could buy (at fantastic prices) champagne, vodka, soda pop, bread and sausage. Truck-borne roving players mimed and capered on eleven bunting-draped stages in public squares. Fifty-three bands washed the Kremlin's golden domes with music. For three days factory wheels were still, and bureaucrats mercifully stopped pushing their pens. And on the fourth...
...these drinks and still the same only worse, not even happy. Another, dear! George-a fine party, George, am I glad we left that madhouse and came over here-how about two more with soda, George! Keep'em strong, strong, strong, and strong. Vag, Vag, come off it, boy it was only a game, wasn't it? Why let that rain the weekend, the Big Weekend, thought Vag. And then rush rush rush everyone out to dinner...
...Budd drifted back to obscurity on small stations (from Asbury Park to Miami) and to odd jobs (from taxi driving to soda jerking). Last week he turned up in Buffalo, where he started, to audition...
Pete Zikarian, former soda-jerk but now a haberdasher who, unlike another wellknown ex-member of the trade, is making a tidy go at it, likes to take business sitting down for a change. And when he stretches out in the Crimson Men's Shop at 36 Dunster Street he likes to look at Crimson Varsity football players, as well as the cash register...
...Strenuous Life. In Springfield, ΙΙΙ., Soda Jerk Herman Gronewald was rushed to the hospital after he wrenched his back whipping cream...