Word: alc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tried his hand at laundry, pressing, and punch-concocting. In those days, the great Club controllers like Chase Mellon, young Barney Baruch, et al, inhabited 6 Holyoke Place (now a parking lot), Claverly, Randolph, and Westmorley. "Then, they went more for the straight stuff with a little ginger alc or soda," reflects the alcoholic expert. "They had pride in holding their own whiskeys. Now that the punch has come in, they start right off with the idea of getting drunk...
...condemned Naziism in the strongest terms the Vatican had used since the invasion of Poland. Text for the castigation was an editorial from Catholic Spain-which Pius XII is presumably as anxious as U. S. and British Catholics to keep out of the arms of the Axis. The Madrid Alcázar had written: "National Socialism is primarily a religious movement based on Christian principle." Said the Vatican radio in trenchant rebuttal...