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...almost steamed. You know the year of the ham, and you soak it a short time or a long one, depending on whether it's a good year or not. Then you tie it up in a cloth like a pudding. It's very good cooked in beer, too, just a little beer, and steamed. Then when it's done-no sauce-just pour some plain champagne out of your glass over it. That's the way King Edward used to like...
...gave his name as H. H. Tammen. He had started life as a waif, he said, who had found shelter in a Philadelphia saloon, where he became cuspidor and errand boy at the age of seven. It was warm in the saloon, there was free food and from the beer-spotted newspapers left by customers he had learned how to read. He was, he guessed, clever as a kid, for he had risen swiftly to heights of bartending. Before he was 21 he had reigned over a prodigious expanse of dazzling brass and mahogany in the Palmer House, right there...
...wrote his name into history by the alternative of excess is that which came to pass one day in the German city of Rotenburg. General Tilly was about to sack the place when he was arrested by the spectacle of a burgher emptying a tall stein of beer in one prodigious gulp. In his admiration the General spared the town and wooden figures in the clock tower re-enact the Meistertrunk each noon to gaping posterity in the square below. Jeremiah, MacSweeney, and a large company of well known hermits, on the other hand, increased their reputations by consuming...
...glass of beer behind the bar (as he was too self-conscious to do in his Oxford days) he drew a foaming schooner. "Your health!" he tasted the foam, then left the glass up on the bar where eager hands seized, drained it. "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow!" roared the bums. Perhaps abashed, Edward drifted toward the door, passed through the crowd with several handshakes and a jest. Thend sought a moment's respite...
...week; heard General Lincoln C. Andrews and Wayne B. Wheeler, the paid advocate of the Anti-Saloon League, say that Prohibition is here to stay whether the Wets like it or not. "And what is more," said General Andrews, "it will be hard to get a drink of real beer next season." Laughter and boos from respectable citizens greeted this pronouncement; General Andrews was forced to cut short his speech...