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...valiant drinkers is due in considerable measure to the Swedish custom of drinking "healths" or "toasts" incessantly at even completely informal meals. Swedish, and indeed Scandinavian etiquette demands that when three or more people are at table no one of them shall drink so much as a sip of beer, wine or spirits except in pledging a toast. At a formal Swedish dinner the host rises, catches the eye of a guest who also rises, cries "Your health!" and they drink. The host must repeat this ritual at least once with every guest, and each guest must reply in kind...
Hour after hour the hard clay road bastinadoed their blistering feet. Dutch maids and matrons skimmed by on bicycles-made marching seem the harder. As the blazing unclouded sun poured down, scowls gathered and perspiration trickled slimily upon hot flesh. Only one vision of relief loomed. BEER! At Assen there would be beer...
...TIME'S information and possible future use in its very interesting and unique presentation of news, . . . you should know that Coughlin and McKenna were contemporary political bosses, keepers of large saloons of the lowest type where one quart schooners of beer or drinks of low grade whiskey were obtainable for 5?, together with a bountiful free lunch. They were equally famed characters in the Chicago of 1890-1900. To a resident of the Windy City in those days a reference to "Bath House John" without mention of "Hinky Dink" is most incomplete...
Behind us people were cheering, shouting for beer, waving banners. They all wore my daddy's bright blue badges. They honked horns, squawked squawkers, shot off torpedoes, threw confetti at us. When we reached the Union station, they put me on a train. In Springfield, Ill., I had another parade up to the state capitol. Then a man, who said he was chief clerk of the elections department, told me that I would probably be put on the ballot in November. Then I will be able to ask all the Illinois voters this question: "Should the Congress...
Engaged. General Erich ("Beer-Brawler") von Ludendorff, onetime (1916) Quartermaster General of the German Imperial Army; to Frau Dr. Mathilde von Kemnitz. General Ludendorff was recently divorced by his wife whom he charged with smoking too many cigarets; she charged cruelty and misconduct with Dr. von Kemnitz (TIME, July 19th...