Word: bootlegs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...facts, with information of a more or less unrelated and useless naure . . . when he has poured back enough to score his points, he is branded with an A! B.-and put on the market as a pure product. . . . It is a mere label-a standard bonded label on a bootleg bottle...
What is to be accomplished by repealing the supplementary act while leaving the first one in full force? About the only thing which it could possibly accomplish would be to make it easier for bootleggers. It might make liquor more abundant and cheap, but it would still be bootleg liquor. If the proposed repeal had been drafted by the King of the Bootleggers himself, it could scarcely have been more to his liking. If the state should repeal its law forbidding manufacture, importation, and transportation of liquor, state and local police would not feel like interfering with illicit stills, however...
Several questions should be considered by those who are neither fanatically wet nor fanatically dry. How would the increased sale and consumption of bootleg liquor affect the safety of our highways? Would it tend to increase or to decrease drunken driving...
...give Massachusetts a little advantage over them? They who think that an increase in sobriety, in these days of powerful as well as delicate machinery, is a disadvantage to our industries will, of course, vote for repeal. They who think otherwise should at least hesitate before voting to make bootleg liquor more abundant
...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...