Word: bootleged
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Under this jurisprudence, wartime bootleg liquor dealers were punished severely on charges of contributing to inefficiency of workers and hindering war production...
...Kansas' professional Republicans, the dry law is a sacred cow. For 66 years-long before national prohibition came & went-they have tended it lovingly, warded off all abuse and slander. They simply looked the other way while millions of quarts of bootleg stuff poured across the border from Missouri and Colorado...
...generally took a bootleg murder to get "foreigners' " names in Cleveland's big dailies in those days. The city's 36 nationality groups lived together as hostile neighbors. One day in 1926, Andrica called on Editor Louis B. Seltzer of the Scripps-Howard Press. He brandished a batch of scribbled items, registered a heavily accented complaint...
...kids. Guy, now 43, and sleekly handsome, started on the violin, now just stands in front of the band. Brother Carmen, 42, plays sax, and Brother Lebert, 41, the trumpet. Their first dates were at Lake Erie summer resorts. Later, in Chicago, the jazz mecca of the bootleg era, the Royal Canadians were interrupted one night by a gangland machinegun battle. Lombardo reassured radio listeners: "That . . . was our drummer...
...better as a bellboy. The naked white prostitutes paid no attention to him when he delivered bootleg whiskey to their rooms, though their customers sometimes objected. Because he had never been in jail, he was picked by racketeers as front for a movie-ticket racket. He made $50 the first week. But he knew he was headed for the chain gang. He saved his money, stole everything he could lay hands on, pawned it, and fled to Memphis. There he began to read Mencken and Sinclair Lewis, and to see the white men around him in a different light...