Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since the investigators were only interested in checking for violations by license-holders, they did not take action against the under-age drinkers. Purchase of liquor by minors, with or without falsified identification, is forbidden by the state Liquor Control Act, however...
...Commission's investigators obtained the evidence after visits to the restaurants Saturday evening. Drinkers suspected of being under age were asked to show conclusive identification cards...
Died. Hadj Mohammed el Mokri, chubby, white-bearded centenarian (estimated Moslem age: 116), Grand Vizier (Premier) to the last five Sultans of Morocco, dishonored and disfortuned for serving the wrong boss (i.e., France) in his country's successful struggle for independence; in Rabat, Morocco...
With a fine command of Irish idiom, Cork man Gibbings tells the story of two people who were forced to live the lives of Stone Age man and woman in the Australian bush. One was John Graham, a feckless County Cork boy, who was transported for seven years for stealing six pounds of hemp. Assigned as convict-servant to a brutal farmer near Sydney, Graham grew sick and sore at a system by which a man might get as many as 1,600 lashes of a cat-o-nine-tails in a three-year period. He absconded into the bush...
School Spirit. In Waukesha, Wis., two teen-age boys admitted that they had stolen $3.50 from the poor box of St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church, then spent it at the church's festival to raise funds for a school addition...