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...Citizens may still expect to find sacramental wines in the basement of most Roman Catholic and Episcopal churches, Jewish synagogs. † Native wines and 75% Beer...
Proud too may President Madden be in the knowledge that among his alumni are: Walter Percy Chrysler (motors); Anthony H. G. Fokker (airplanes); Charles E. Hires (root beer); Roy Wilson Howard (newspapers); President Sewell Lee Avery of U. S. Gypsum Co.; President Ernst Richard Behrend of Hammermill Paper Co.; Treasurer Ezra Hershey (chocolate); President Francis Albert Countway of Lever Bros. Co. (soap); President Stanley L. Metcalf of Better Brushes, Inc.; President R. C. Norberg of Willard Storage Battery Co.; President Henry C. Osborn of American Multigraph Sales Co.; President Stanley Adams Sweet of Sweet-Orr & Co., Inc. (overalls); President George...
Months ago a group of British and U. S. correspondents waited day after day in a draughty courtyard in the Rue de Crenelle playing cards, drinking beer, arguing, squabbling, waiting for Marshal Foch to die. Last week the identical men were waiting in another courtyard, across the Seine in the Rue Franklin beneath the window of Georges Clémenceau...
Boyhood in Manhattan. "I remember as a small boy going with my father to the Atlantic Garden and listening to the lady musicians. . . . My sister and I were given chocolate to drink, and huge slices of cake, while the elders drank their beer. . . . When I was ten years old, I became an altar boy. ... I practically lived in the fire engine house, . . . rode on the hose cart. . . . Gifted with a good loud voice, I was paid to read off the ticker tape on the night of the Sullivan-Corbett fight. . . . We used the bowsprit and rigging of ships...
...pertinent point of the Yale Professor's lecture was that "Alcohol is a poison and a nareotic just like morphine, and a single glass of beer is sufficient to render some men incapable of driving an automobile safely." Professor Carver agreed heartily with this argument, and added that, in the matter of drunken driving, there is more danger to a community from the actions of a moderate drinker than from a habitual drunkard. "A man" completely intoxicated is not likely to go out and drive a car, whereas a person who has but a few drinks, maybe...