Word: bootlegging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...noteworthy that this debate proceeds upon a rather exaggerated assumption of the seriousness of the situation For the fictious opponent of the Retired Humorist, namely, Mr. Liberal Broad, does not, in this set debate, attempt to repute the allegation that college comics have "but two sources of inspiration, bootleg liquor and an unbridled sex motive". Nor does he object to the pernicious use on the adjective "freuent," applied to suppression by postal officials. He does not even suggest that postal officials are poor judges. Evidently Mr. Liberal Broad, does no., is a man of straw, capable only of trite generalization...
Legal attempts to reduce human affairs to the common denominator of justice are commendable in principle but occasionally laughable in practice. In a neighboring state, the Attorney Ceneral prosecuting a liquor case rhetorically asks, "Who is stronger, the bootleg ring or the state of Rhode Island?" only to have the jury return a verdict of not guilty. And to pitch the question on a more adventurous plane, even now a governmental quibble arises concerning payment of duty on pictures taken by Byrd at the North Pole. Thus does the energy and initiative of aerial explorers whittle down...
...ought to consign jazz to a hotter place than this earth. . . . It is bootleg music. Let us curb it; let us put it down; let us outlaw the thing! . . . The jazz hound is the musical bandit, running amuck. You can't purify a polecat. Let us try not to reform jazz, but to stamp it out-to kill it like a rattlesnake. Good music is one of the things that charm the soul in Heaven...
Apart from the courtroom scene, the play is one of homely American wit, complicated by illicit love, bootleg whiskey, and women's rights. The acting was good. Miss Hanson went through the part of the Judge with a certain dignity and carriage which lent breeding to the play where one would not expect it. Little Miss Lyons in the somewhat impossible role of the daughter who sinned was young, and eager, and refreshing. Miss Hill and Miss Milne did excellent character bits. Although we have already suggested the charm which Mr. Hodge continually displays, it is impossible to put down...
...would have a salutary effect to prosecute some of these purchasers so that the country might know some of the so-called 'good people' are simply in the bootleg class," he said. "This provision is contained in Section 29 of Title 2 of the Prohibition...