Word: brew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days at the penal farm. Happy was he when, in 1925, the legislature passed a law forbidding the display of flasks and cocktail shakers by merchants, the reproduction of liquor labels in newspapers, medicinal prescription of whiskey. Last month it was dis-covered that he was medicinally drinking a brew which contained 23% alcohol, which he instantly forswore...
...collision. He pointed to the other collisionist, one Oliver H. Austin, and said, "That is the man." Result: $200 fine for Autoist Austin for hit-&-running. Police in Phoenix City, Ala. observed an automobile behaving peculiarly at midnight, suspected autointoxication, arrested the occupants, found allegedly three bottles of home brew. One B. M. Haines was charged with driving while intoxicated the automobile of James Thomas Heflin, junior-junior, that is, to the senior Senator from Alabama. Junior Heflin was also lodged in jail, charged with drunkenness, with violating the state prohibition law. Results: Heflin Jr. received a visit from...
Wrote Mrs. Willebrandt: "It was charged that Heber Nations' part in the conspiracy was to keep the brewery advised, through his brother Gus, then chief prohibition officer in St. Louis, when it would be safe to run out the forbidden brew...
Blood splattered on the marble floor of the New Orleans City Hall last week as, for a second time, the street car strike in that city went berserk. Politics and Labor mixed to make an unholy brew of violence...
...hours, so has science and electricity aided the ancient art of brewing, the "Prince's Brew" was ready to be bottled and barreled. Edward of Wales was handed a copious draught of his own ale and pronounced a master maltster...