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...Monee, Ill.., Simon Longton. bartender, died from blood poisoning brought on when a beer keg's bung popped, banged his nose...
...Spanish department and chairman of the University Athletic Association-each made scholarly contributions to the art and practice of drinking. Professor Yandell, interested in the toxicological aspect of tippling, announced in the Yale News that a tosspot would have to down two litres (one-half gal.) of 4% beer every hour to become intoxicated. "General experience shows," amended Pedagog Yandell, "that few persons care to drink two litres in an hour. Under my definition [that 80 cc. of alcohol can be absorbed in the system in one hour], therefore, beer containing 3% or 4% of alcohol by volume...
Evidently the Prohibition broil is getting too hot for the politicians and they figure it better to jump out of the frying pan into the fire of hard times. The full dinner pail is accordingly held forth to tempt the working man away from the overflowing beer bucket...
...their affections, and that the remaining two days could be spent in showing their love for the country at large. This all appears perfectly sensible to the outsider, but Yale alumni know better. They remember the halcyon week ends at New Haven when they sat under the trees sipping beer and swapping small talk, and so they are taking steps to confine the undergraduate to the cloistered serenity of the quadrangle during the week ends...
...mean to say," exploded one of the newshawks, "that an Englishman in your employ can't so much as drink a glass of beer at lunch time...