Word: bootlegs
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Long have U. S. citizens been peddled kegs of California and New York grape juice, destined to become wine in the citizens' homes. These were semi-bootleg sales, unnoticed by the Prohibition Bureau. There was no advertising, only a door-to-door canvass. But last week in Milwaukee there appeared large billboard and full-page newspaper advertisements for a grape concentrate called "Vine-Glo." Beside thin-stemmed glasses of ruby and amber liquids were the words: "You can't buy it from peddlers. Not on sale at any store. Never served in any restaurant-BUT YOU CAN HAVE...
...Bootleg buyers never have known positively whether or not the law applied to them. They and the Government wanted an explanation of the Act's language: ". . . No one shall . . . purchase . . . any liquor without first obtaining a permit from the Commissioner so to do." This sentence might apply to the general public or only to special purchasers (i. e. drugstores) who obtained liquor from illegal sources. The U. S. Supreme Court last week handed down a decision in the case of one James E. Farrar, Boston elevated streetcar operator arrested for liquor-buying: he was not guilty.* Explained Associate Justice George...
...took over the cross-roads village of Cicero, outside the city limits, made it a special gambling and vice resort. He started dog-racing. He developed his liquor trade in every direction. When men got in his way, his hirelings shot them down. A famed Capone saying: "It's bootleg when it's on the trucks but when your host hands it to you on 'a silver tray, it's hospitality...
...Mencken, "quite devoid of the religious impulse," makes of religion his unholy hobby, traces its history with ingenuity, learning, logic, comes to the conclusion that Christianity is on the decline, is glad of his conclusion. Says Mencken: "Everything that we are we owe to Satan and his bootleg apples...
...good drink in 15 minutes. No less than 6,000,000 gallons of hard liquor are consumed in Kansas annually. Detroit is in the grip of gangsters and crooked politicians. North Dakota consumes immeasurably more hard liquor than before Prohibition. There out of every four farmers one is making bootleg liquor for the other three. Drinking goes on in the vilest places in Minneapolis. There is not a decent speakeasy in the city but there are 3,000 beer flats where girls preside. A young fellow telephones to Clara or Rose that, he is bringing up a friend...