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On-the-spot pours (also avail in growlers to go) are spread over twelve taps, with the opening rotation including Arcadia's Jaw-Jacker Pumpkin Ale, Oskar Blues 'Dale's Pale Ale, Coney Island Sword Swallower, and a a house favorite, "extravagantly hopped, full flavored, medium bodied, and copper colored" West Coast IPA from Green Flash, so good you'll think you're the savor-er of the universe.
Thrillist: Good Beer NYC: Beer To Go...Or Stay Thrillist 2010
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The Sword Swallower He drew from influences ranging from the leading thinkers on capitalism and a sword-swallowing Swedish health expert to Norman Borlaug, the plant pathologist who won the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in the Green Revolution that boosted food production.
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Sword Swallower thinking about giving Birdy Num Num a bath:
Archive 2007-06-01 GuyanaHHH 2007
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Sword Swallower thinking about giving Birdy Num Num a bath:
Run 553 - Mocha/Arcadia Mud Slog GuyanaHHH 2007
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Edith Clifford: "Champion Sword Swallower of the World" driving the bayonet suddenly down her throat.
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"The Sword Swallower" and has privately tipped Olie off as to the functions of the table fork.
The Prairie Wife Arthur Stringer 1912
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By this the boy knew that the Mexican Sword Swallower had not relented -- but that his mother had been kind.
The Mother Norman Duncan 1893
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And descending to the third floor of the tenement, he came to the room where lived the Mexican Sword Swallower: whom he persuaded to return with him to Mr. Poddle's bedside.
The Mother Norman Duncan 1893
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His Memoirs of a Sword Swallower opens with this excellent sentence: I probably never would have become
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His Memoirs of a Sword Swallower opens with this excellent sentence: I probably never would have become
The Guardian World News Daniel Kalder 2010
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