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...athletics. One can hardly venture to assert what will take place when seven house crews take to the Charles simultaneously. Perhaps the authorities will find it necessary to provide the shells with ash trays and bottle openers, but at all events one hopes the boats will not degenerate into beer kegs manned by topers...
Later a victorious Pomeranian regiment was quartered in the college with Ferdinand Foch and his schoolmates. The Pomeranians were great-bearded men. They smoked china pipes, smelled of beer and onions, scowled ferociously. Ferdinand Foch never forgot that either. It helped develop his faculties...
...defied full, smooth tones. Robert Edmond Jones's simple, color-splashed sets had more general appeal: a ghoulish eye set in a screen for the doctor's examining office; the elongated shadow of a stack of guns for the soldier's barracks; a festoon of colored lights for a beer garden; a street in the town all angles and planes...
...profitable law practice some 15 years ago to become the fixture he is at Cornell. When he meets with Book & Bowl, Cornell's carousing literary society, he reads verses, funny monologs. Once a year the literary society meets as his guest, drinks a barrel of Scranton's best beer, eats Rym Berry's famed imported Bavarian pretzels...
Celebrating "fizz-night" a week before the Oxford-Cambridge boat-race, Oxford and Cambridge oarsmen gathered last week in their respective training quarters near Putney, England. To each was served, instead of the measly training-table ration of one glass of port or 1½ pints of beer, a full, fat bottle of champagne. After watching the crews train for six weeks, critics said: "Neither can be called really good...