Word: beer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...annual liquor business, with its $30,000,000 paid for protection, would have enough profits for all the hoodlums. But each gang has its eye on a monopoly. They encroach upon one another's territory, raid one another's warehouses, capture one another's beer trucks, slaughter one another's men. There are four major gangs: one on the North Side (with a onetime assistant state's attorney as its adviser) ; two on the south side (one of which is led by "Polack Joe" Saltis) ; one on the far west side with headquarters in Cicero...
...Under the present Ontario law (that the new bill may replace) the sale of 4.4% beer and whiskey on a doctor's prescription is permitted. Many bootleggers flourish. The new bill makes sure that liquor will only be sold through government stores by a provision for compulsory jail sentence without option of a fine for the unauthorized sale of as much as one bottle of liquor...
Goaded by the announcement that a special brand of beer was being used by the Cambridge University crew at their training quarters, Richmond-on-the-Thames, England (TIME, March 14), the president of the rival Oxford eight, also in training, made a statement in behalf of his men. They would drink dark beer during the training period as a matter of course; would sip port on alternate nights; once a week indulge in champagne...
Thoughtful commentators like Lord Bryce are no longer read ("too longwinded"). Brilliant specialists like Thomas Beer are chuckled over, then dismissed as satirists ("too clever"). Lewis Mumford steps forward, more penetrating than a Van Wyck Brooks, more coherent than a Ralph Adams Cram, far more mature, mannerly and historical than any Mencken, with a book* that is badly needed. He succinctly, brilliantly yet mellowly, summarizes U. S. culture to date...
...College authorities also evidently kept an eye on charge accounts, as evidenced by the decree that "no Undergraduate shall go or send to any Inn holder or Retailor within three miles of ye College for any strong Beer, Brandy, Rum. Wine or other spirituous Liquors, without paying immediately for ye same...