Word: bootlegging
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...months she opened the first of her three speakeasies, in a mansion on East 52nd Street-it was not a saloon, she insisted, but a salon. For entertainment Belle featured such "continental bizarrie as will be cayenne to the jaded mental tongue." For refreshment she offered the usual bootleg booze, champagne (at $30 a bottle) for the discriminating. One night she dared to charge Al Capone $1,000 for a round of soft drinks. But in 1931 the Feds closed down her "Country Club" on 58th Street, caught buxom Belle as she tried to skedaddle across the roofscape...
...evening wears on and the smoke from the wall tables eddies through the room, the band is likely to swing with a pile-driver beat into some old favorites-Big Mamou or Shake It and Break It. The style, as raw and jolting as a shot of bootleg rye, offers the last authentic taste of the music that once helped make New Orleans the world's jazz capital...
...years a dog columnist and a roving judge of dog shows, Riddle has been bitten only once, at a show years ago in Tennessee. The offending entry, a basset hound, paid dearly for its bootleg nip: it was disqualified on the spot. Riddle is devoted to man's best friend ("I'm just a sucker for dogs"), but he considers biting (especially Riddle) the unpardonable sin. To a lady asking how to cure her dog of chewing on the baby, Riddle replied tersely: "With a .45 pistol...
...Hardy. In Statesville, N.C., Kenneth Turner Bauguess tried his best to keep Police Sergeant C. R. Lloyd from helping him put out a fire in his car, was arrested when Lloyd insisted, ordered him to lift the hood, found that the blaze was caused by a broken jar of bootleg whisky that had caught fire from contact with overheated parts of the engine...
...score rose to 22 to 0 before the Crimson quarterback could get his squad rolling during the third period. Attempting a spectacular bootleg pass play to Dick Aadalen, Kenny Deitch threw accurately but the ball slipped through Aadalen's cold hands. The latter quickly vindicated himself by intercepting a pass on the Yale 15 and easily running to the end zone...