Word: rye
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...doormen dressed like admirals, headwaiters with manners like Gestapo agents, blonde Mata Haris of the checkroom, silk ropes, and other frustrated pilgrims awaiting admission. But the lemmings are not discouraged; they bribe, push and plead for the privilege of paying $8 to $125 a couple for dining, drinking blended rye at saucer-sized tables, breathing smoke and carbon monoxide and getting their eardrums clouted by a boogie woogie beat...
...have long beefed about the Government's method of selling liquor and beer. They had to pay 50? for a permit, had to wait in slow-moving queues at one of the four Government retail stores. If they were lucky, they got four quarts a month of Canadian rye or gin, or two of imported liquors. Attached to each bottle was an admonition to take it straight home...
...Eugen, everybody spoke excited German. Voices were raised in beer-hall airs as the schnapps went down (in violation of Navy regulations). By remoter bulkheads, the Nazis held hands with American girls. Empty rye bottles rolled clanking under bunks. The loneliest man on board was the single U.S. Marine guarding the gangplank...
...definitely poisonous to certain plants, e.g., squash, cucumbers and melons are killed or stunted by small doses. Tomatoes, corn, beans and rye are sometimes retarded...
...around for a czar to run the show. What they wanted was a man whose plea for free exchanges would be listened to in Washington; whose firm hand would keep the traders in line, so that there would be no trouble, such as last summer's scandal in rye, to bring down further regulation...