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...petition seeking the serving of beer and wine in the dining hall and night lunch of Eliot House was posted yesterday evening at dinner time in that House. Although not posted until the dinner hour was almost over, the petition accumulated about 25 names...
...Doukhobors are thrifty, peace-loving. They eat no flesh, drink no wine, use no tobacco. In their communal life, marriages (compulsory for all) are effected simply by taking partners. The Doukhobors are averse to paying taxes and putting their children in provincial schools. Their resentment against schools they sometimes expressed by burning them. Nakedness is a part of the Doukhobors' religious practice, especially in a fanatical inner sect called the "Sons of Freedom." Often, on their own lands, they go about naked even in midwinter, although this is less popular with the younger generation than with strapping Doukhobor matrons...
...Received from the Judiciary Committee a bill to legalize the manufacture and sale of 3.05% beer & wine...
...sweat off fat in a straw box, have their heads shampooed by trainers. Two to three weeks before fighting they spar in spurs covered with leather rolls. Oldtime English trainers fed their fowl a diet of seeds, plants, bark and roots, washed down with stale beer and ale, white wine, sack gin and whiskey. Thirsty trainers drank the mixture themselves, called it cock-bread-ale, cock-ale or cocktails...
Still glowing from his warm reception. Farmer Campbell described the Soviet President, Comrade Kalinin, as "a fine gentleman." doubtless unaware that "gentleman" is a fighting word among Reds. Gratefully he recalled "one of the finest dinners we had ever eaten, including several different kinds of wine. The other guests at the table were amazed that Mrs. Campbell and I did not drink and teased us a great deal about Prohibition in the United States. . . . Before the evening was over we had a typical Russian sleigh ride through the thick dark forests. Mrs. Kalinin took me with her, while the rest...