Word: bootlegging
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...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...
...Bootleg beer is offered for sale at prices ranging from...
...HABITS and CUSTOMS of modern LEGAL marriage, namely, 1 ) to legalize birth control, so as to make the "companionate'' relationship in lawful marriage just as legal and moral as the "procreative" relationship, especially since the great majority of all married couples practice the "companionate" relationship in a bootleg manner even though it is forbidden by the rules and laws of church and state. 2) To legalize certain sex education, so necessary for successful marriage, but which is now also quite generally forbidden by law. 3) To abolish the present divorce courts with all of their illegality, hypocrisy...
British System. The U. S. has 609 radio stations, no license fee for receiving sets. Canada has 66 stations. It taxes receivers $2 per year, figures that there are some 100,000 "bootleg sets" in the Dominion. In the British Isles there are 22 stations, all directed from the B. B. C. flatiron. The license fee of ten shillings per set (about $1.80 at current exchange) supplies the chief revenue of the B. B. C. and most listeners feel they get their money's worth. From licenses B. B. C nets around $4,500,000 per year, nets another...
...stood on the edge of the canal, next to the sumptuous guild of the moneylenders. On its lintel was the cryptic legend, "speak of nothing but business, and speak quickly. To the merchant-princes of the guild, who saw it in passing, it might have seemed like the humble bootleg of a cobbler. Not the most fortunate of them would know that within it countries of the mind were being discovered, vaster than the lands toward which another Italian was sailing in the same year. Entering, he would have found the flower of Venetian scholarship gathered about a table...