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...sales of liquor at prices above ceilings; 2) pressure-sales of wine, sherry, raw Cuban gin or Puerto Rican rum before any whiskey conies out from under the counter. In Los Angeles retailers frantically tried to switch their customers.from bour bon to tequila, which was flooding across the border because it sells for $1 a fifth in Mexico...
Deputies bustled into the Palais-Bour-bon last week for what was sure to be a wild scene, reception by the Chamber of new Premier Leon Blum, a prosperous and infirm old Socialist whose spidery limbs and thin beaked nose give him the air of a flamingo. Flapping gestures complete the illusion and Premier Blum last week was also bird-like in his air of being exquisitely preened and valeted. Spotless were his pearl-grey spats. Faint was his aroma of eau de Cologne. He had just set up one of the very largest Cabinets ever formed in France...
Midnight tonight will be the zero bour for the Advocate "Dry" competition. Since the announcement of February 8, the number of entries has practically doubled...
...Grounds, Boston. These rinks may be engaged for match games. There is good skating on the private rinks at the chutes in Boston and at the Cambridge Skating Club; also at Spy Pond, Arlington; Hammond's Pond, Chestnut Hill; Artificial Pond, Cambridge; Leverett Pond, Roxbury; Ell Pond, Melrose; Bour Pond, Woburn; Lake Quanapowitt, Wakefield; Crystal Lake, Newton; Charles River, Waltham; and the Mystic Lakes. Jamaica Pond is not yet frozen over...
Strangely, in Barbour's work, Wallace does not figure. Contemporary with Bar bour, however, came the author of the so called Blind Harry's "Wallace" a long poem sounding the praises of the great Scotchman, This poem had an influence later on Burns and Scott. About the same time came Andrew Winton who wrote the "Chronicles of Scotland." Winton had no marked literary gift and his work is not any great. It has, however, certain interest for the antiquarian...