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...Beer is my drink! I have always liked beer...
...Record: Educated for the army at Sandhurst; fought in France with the 16th Lancers, later with the Royal Flying Corps; first returned to Parliament as a Conservative in the "Khaki Election" of 1918; returned as an Independent in 1922 and 1923; returned as a Laborite in 1926 by beer-loving Smethwick...
...workman's challenge to down a pint of "bitter" almost proved the candidate's undoing. Champagne is, in fact, his drink. Shrewd, he sidestepped the challenge temporarily, practiced at home by gargling bitter beer until he could down the horrid stuff publicly without making a wry face. In Smethwick, his constituency, beer is almost an article of the workingman's faith...
...fistfights in silent pictures that are still famed for their realism. Now both are aging, paunchy men, and their struggle is grotesque, humiliating, feeble. In the end Farnum quits drinking and Little Mary does not die in spite of being hit in the head by a beer schooner when she goes to bring her father home from the saloon...
High ran the hopes of the Wets last December when U. S. District Court Judge William Clark, at Newark, N. J., handed down a decision that the 18th Amendment was invalid. Judge Clark, in quashing an indictment brought against one William Sprague for transporting a truck load of beer, had contended that the 18th Amendment should have been ratified by State conventions (representing the People) rather than by State legislatures (TIME, Dec. 29). Last week it was the Drys' turn for jubilance. Acting for the U. S. Supreme Court, speaking before a courtroom crowded but orderly, tall, bespectacled Associate...