Word: bootlegs
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...think in a short time, after people have accustomed themselves again to drinking, it will be carried on in a sane manner just as it used to be in the old days when one drank for enjoyment. Because their sense of taste has been so dulled by the horrible bootleg liquor, it will take some time for them to be able to appreciate good liquor, such as three star Henesee cognac...
After the papers were signed a Schenley official hurriedly sent for a bottle of Bacardi to show the Press. As it was passed around Old Henri Schueg began to chuckle. It was bootleg with a faked label...
...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...
...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...