Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Notes on a Cellar Book," Saintsbury's magic sword, was all dressed up in red and white and black and gold and a preface by Owen Wister, and brought out in a new American edition, for a generation that has never known good wines or liquors, never known that alcoholic drinks should be smelled, tasted, sipped, reflected upon, instead of being gulped with a prayer, never known when sherry, when burgundy, when port, when madeira should be served; a generation that has, in "drinking for drunkee," lost sight of the milder and nobler uses of alcohol...
...their gin program, WOR was taking a grave chance of losing its broadcasting license. The prudish Federal Radio Commission, which always points out that it has no powers of censorship but which nevertheless can brush an offending station off the air overnight, had just laid down the doctrine that alcohol advertisements must be kept off the air. All broadcasters were thus warned...
...letter to the House Judiciary Committee, Mr. John S. Hurley, Assistant Attorney General, reveals the amazing situation which exists; he says that "the country is at the present time, flooded with imitations of various domestic blended and rectified spirits, all of which are non-tax-paid . . . in states where alcohol control laws do not provide for a county or state store system, but only require a license or some similar system, these fictitious imitations are being sold promiscuously in every sort of establishment." That this continuance of bootlegging on the grand scale can be, to a considerable degree, attributed...
...must not be thought that in recommending moonshine, and its sub-varieties, the drinking of colored alcohol is being encouraged; not in the least. This moonshine, particularly as made in many of the Southern and Western States, is a genuine whiskey, with a character all its own. The type with which Castor and I are most familiar is the so-called "Leadville Moon," a subtle growth of the Rockies, dark in color, shimmering in the light of a candle with a glow almost not of this earth, giving a hint of powers unknown to the average mortal. Its taste...
Already harried by the complexities of state regulations, no two sets of which are alike, distillers turned to Washington and the administrator of their code authority, Dr. James M. Doran, longtime Commissioner of Industrial Alcohol. Dr. Doran, since 1927 the Government's contact man with the liquor business, spoke out for the distillers...