Word: bootlegging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hysterically into each other's arms because "they need their hatred for the other people''; when philosophical Ferd is stoned for predicting Germany will lose the War; when the Battle of Verdun makes so many of his playmates orphans; when people, tired of Death and Patriotism, bootleg food under police noses; when two mutilated soldiers symbolically reveal the blood beneath the flag waving...
...wasn't attacking the President. . . . I have no quarrel with the President. I haven't seen much drinking in Washington. . . . We don't have bootleg in my house, but it is common knowledge that there is lots of drinking. I've been here six years and I've never been offered a drink more than once...
...Count de Polignac and 32 Seized Here as Liquor Ring." First developments: the Count was released on $25,000 bail. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Seymour Lowman said: ''We have been trying to get him for a long time. He has been suspected of participating in a bootleg ring that has brought large quantities of liquor into the country." The Count de Polignac is in charge of foreign agents for the French champagne firm Pommery & Greno of which the Marquis Melchior de Polignac, the Count's first cousin, is president. Often he travels in Canada, in South...
...Debated the killing by a Washington policeman of a 21-year-old bootleg suspect. Drys applauded what Wets called "murder...
...Dehated the killing by a Washington policeman of a 21-year-old bootleg suspect. Drys applauded what Wets called "murder...