Word: bootlegged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With the repeal of Prohibition, big bootleggers are turning to the gasoline racket. This week in Manhattan officials of nine Eastern States will meet to discus? the bootleg menace, try to coordinate tax collecting efforts...
...Buenos Aires books were opened last week for subscriptions to this Roca-Runciman loan. Argentina waited nervously to see how British firms would take the bait. Would they subscribe, or would they prefer to bootleg their money out of the country a few pounds at a time by selling pesos at special rates to tourists and others with dollar bills or pound notes? With relief Finance Minister Federico Pinedo soon announced...
...week). Floradora, musty relic of the nineties, ran close second. Last week at the Muny Opera Rip Van Winkle was put on with Robert Planquette's corny, old-time score jazzed almost beyond recognition. The Muny Rip was a radio entertainer who took too much bootleg gin and dreamed he was the sleepy Washington Irving hero. He sang one piece called ''My Hudson River Home" which was strangely like "Ol' Man River," Red Coats traveled through the papier-mâché Catskills in a rattly old Ford, spent their evenings listening to a portable radio...
...Long has peppery, little Judge Lindsey trooped up & down the country with a marital Utopia under his arm and at the end of his tongue, wrangling with churchmen and standpatters, touching off a conflagration of protest. One of Judge Lindsey's pet anathemas has been what he calls "bootleg divorce," i. e. divorce by amicable agreement but fixed up to look as though one party had been wronged by the other, to conform to the law. He violently wants to change that...
...Bootleg beer is offered for sale at prices ranging from...