Word: beering
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...bodies are blurred shadows in doorways, or lazy silhouettes revealed where street-corner bars and laundries drip golden honey into the darkness. They seem not to have a wish in the world, these limber shadows, except to idle, waiting for a hypothetical friend to treat them to a phantom beer, or listening to the mutter and shuffle 'of jazz that issues from the garish arcade of the Paradise Cafe...
...talk continued. Deputies slept. Some walked out of the Reichstag and quaffed beer, in the Tiergarten (park) or sat on the benches. So noticeable was the exodus that a Socialist rose to move that the session be moved to the Tiergarten or loud speakers loud enough to reach the innermost recesses of the park be installed. After a few days they were required to wake up, vote on the measures. They did, passing them by average majorities...
...TIME, May 11, et seq.) : "One requires no map in order to follow operations in this important sector. One can install oneself comfortably-except for the flies, whose buzzing might be taken for Abd-el-Krim's air service -on a shady cafe terrace and drink cool beer while a friendly French officer explains the situation with a magnificent panorama of mountains stretched out before one for orientation...
...President of the Prohibition Council of Australia protested against beer being served to sailors at public functions, saying: "The sailors come to us clean and wholesome...
...Ludwig of Bavaria drove alone up the black highroad to Bayreuth to pay tribute at the grave of the dead Wagner; of the multitude of famed musicians, soloists in their own right, who accept a bare living wage at Bayreuth to offer their Art to the Master; of the beer profiteers at the Festspiel-hauser; of the shaggy, the swollen little man, lying on his back in the garden, with earth in his beard and the roots of flowers in his eyes-thinking...