Word: stoutness
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...bittersweetly beloved Dublin, scarcely a stout was downed in his honor at Davy Byrne's, the pub he celebrated. But in Paris, at the American Center for Students and Artists, 350 partisans of James Joyce got together to celebrate the 84th anniversary of his birth. After Author Mary McCarthy, Joyce Scholar Stuart Gilbert and the rest of the cult articulately wished him a happy birthday, the ghost of James lyrically garbled everything by reciting some of Ulysses from a tape recorder...
Irishmen drink the rich, dark brew known as Guinness Stout pretty much as a patriotic duty. Of all the stout consumed in the country, 75% is produced by 206-year-old Arthur Guinness Son & Co., which has grown so large that it is a keystone of the Irish economy. Guinness employs 4,300 people, more than anyone else except the government. Indirectly, it supports 26,000 employees of 14,500 pubs-and 16,000 Irish farmers depend on Guinness to buy 100,000 tons of barley annually. The company pays $23 million yearly in excise taxes, has lent the government...
...aging grandfather. Although Guinness became a public company in 1886, it is still family-controlled. Along with Eton-and Cambridge-educated Elveden, eight other Guinnesses sit on the board. Like the rest of Ireland, Guinness people do their duty by the company. Workers are allowed two free pints of stout each day. At board meetings, by long tradition, a silver tankard of Guinness stout is set in front of each director...
Cassius Clay? Not this time. California's Governor Pat Brown, 60, was sicking his doggerel on New York's Nelson Rockefeller, 57, betting him "one box of assorted fresh California fruit" that the San Diego Chargers would whip the Bills for the American Football League championship. Nelson, stout feller, staked a crate of New York State apples on it, and after some musing wrote Brown...
...92nd year in a row, the stout young lads of the undefeated, untied, and totally invincible CRIMSON touch football team clobbered their counterparts from the Yalie Daily this morning, 23-2. In the history of this great and ancient rivalry, the CRIMSON has outscored its opponents...