Word: wirth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nostrils dilate voluptuously with the smell of dill. "Ah, Bock," he smiled ecstatically, unaffected by his friend's matter-of-fact terseness. "Harbinger of Spring. Once a year the brewers clean out the dregs from their barrels and market this heady, brown nectar. Why, it's better than Jake Wirth's dark, and you can save the subway trip." He held his glass up and examined its rich molasses-like color in the light. The strains of Stravinsky's Sacre du Printemps revamped by Freddie Martin began to permeate the vernal atmosphere...
Here & there a city got to work. Example: Newark planned 300 temporary houses (needed: 7,000). Here & there a voice spoke out in alarm: Sociologist Louis Wirth, chairman of an emergency Chicago housing committee, prepared a careful report urging the city to convert factories, office buildings and war plants into makeshift shelter. But mostly the problem was just talked about...
...testimony. But Vice Admiral Aubrey Fitch, the Academy's superintendent, does not want his men to have to march too far between classes and dormitories. Said he: "There is no other tract of land comparable to the St. John's acreage." When a four-striper, Captain Theodore Wirth, said that the Academy has its traditions too, the crowded committee room cheered...
Tomorrow will see the big Company 4 event of the week. Gene Speer, after his bachelor party of last Wednesday down at Jake Wirth's will become a benedict at the Harvard Memorial Chapel. All of course, are invited...
Plans are being made for a "big" beer-bust on Friday, June 28. Inasmuch as this follows our last final exam, it is expected that general approval will be given. The "new" Seniors will be guests. Chief guzzlers Ryan, Stecker, and Ringe, after testing their capacity at Jake Wirth's last Saturday, promise to give a good account of themselves...