Word: brew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Commencement Day Committee is taking no chances on stirring up another such witches brew as the one which has just been allowed to cool. Seasonably forewarned by the effects of Dr. Butler's statements and the fiery denunciations of his opponents, they have wisely chosen to stifle any thoughts of illicit festivity, which might be taking shape in the minds of irresponsible graduates...
...other end of the town Communists staged a counterdemonstration. Trouble began to brew. Police threw a cordon around a parkful of Communists and.kept them there from dawn to dusk. Other Communists tried to enter the town and beat up the Monarchists. The police barred the way; a bloody clash occurred. Eleven people were killed, over 30 injured, more than 450 jailed...
Prior to 1919 practically all wine grapes in this country were purchased by a few wineries. With the advent of prohibition laws, winegrowers feared that their occupation was ruined. But in this they reckoned without the demand supplied by many thousands of amateur makers of "home brew" wines...
...tonnage of the crop was 400,000-valued at $20,000,000, or $5 a ton. Production then fell to 375,000 tons in 1920, and to 310,000 tons in 1921, while prices rose to $75 and $82 respectively. But at this point the "home brew" wine maker apparently got busy. In 1922 the crop jumped to 450,000 tons, and last year was 428,000 tons, despite a severe rail-dew. Meanwhile prices fell to $65 in 1922 and to $40 last year...
...World", he has succeeded admirably. A man who styles himself "A. K. Fill more, President of the League for the Uplift of Moral Virtue and the Suppression of Unwarranted Pleasure" managed to get that paper to print a letter advocating coffee-prohibition. "Brain-numbing and soui-destroying brew" he terms this fluid, and ends that inasmuch as the Bible does not state that coffee drinking is not a sin it "must be classed with other licentious habits". If Mark Twain were alive today Mr. Fillmore's article would certainly have been attributed to him: it is absolutely typical of America...