Word: tankards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dramatic Club Summer Players, a group which has been forming elegantly, there four summers now, in the center ring of our sweaty free-form carnival. That qualification, then: Use anything--from a Times Square News Flasher heralding the scenes to a case of Carling Black Label in the New Tankard Cans at the Last Supper--but use it only with the tact of art, the high decorum which subsists in the meetness of technique and purpose...
Those were mere trinkets compared with his prize, an extremely rare cup-sized tankard, dated 1656 and last sold from the William Randolph Hearst collection in 1939 for $1,400. Shrubsole cheerfully paid $29,000 for it. "A very reasonable price," he gloated. "I've never seen a tankard like this in the 40 years I've been in the business. I saw it when it sold at the Hearst collection, but I didn't have the $1,400 then. Ha, but today I do have the $29,000." Ha, indeed. In the present state of demand...
...Silver Tankard. Guinness' principal product, however, will always continue to be beers brewed pretty much as they have been for two centuries. In 1759, looking for a place to invest a ?100 inheritance, Arthur Guinness leased a bankrupt brewery beside the Liffey River; the St. James's Gate plant is still the company's principal operation, has grown into a 63-acre sprawl that is one of the world's largest breweries. The chairman's job and brewing secrets have since passed regularly from father to son except in one case. Viscount Elveden...
...picnic. The characters are rumbustious caricatures. Joyce Redman is a soggy old piece of cake. Finney is Tom clean through-a fine strapping country boy whose heart is in the right place even when his foremost interest isn't. But Hugh Griffith is the man to watch. A tankard in one hand, a buttock in the other, Squire Western superbly defines a type not quite extinct: the aboriginal Tory, John Bull in his own barnyard...
...tankard by Cornelius Kierstede with five pegs inside the body in line with the handle; as the tankard was passed around, each bibber drank to his peg but not a drop below...