Word: gins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obvious that an "excursionist," unless roped, hog-tied and branded as such, could not possibly be distinguished from a "tourist." Any U. S. citizen who found himself in Ontario and considered himself to be a Canadian tourist could secure a tourist permit and quaff beer, wine, ale, whiskey, champagne, gin, in any legal "residence," including his hotel room...
...death of Student John Harper, 21, resulting from poison gin, caused the University of Chicago to announce that it was forced to employ a private staff of Prohibition agents, since the regular Federal officials did not give the campus sufficient protection...
Near England, Ark., an airplane observer saw a shirt being flapped from a hole in the roof of a cotton gin. Daily for ten days the plane returned, "bombing" the hole accurately with supplies which saved the refugee's lives. ... A corps of flyers bravely patrolled a 400-mile stretch south of Memphis, in land planes. If forced down certain drowning awaited them. No respecter of greatness, the flood sadly hampered the glory-cruise of William Hale Thompson, Chicago mayor, who last week started down the Mississippi from Cairo, accompanied by a large party on the river steamers Cincinnati...
...subject "Bootleggery" receives official recognition in art for the first time with several pictures tracing the trail of unconstitutionally of thirst through the speakeasy, the gin party, the hangover, and on to the dire eventuality, Bellevue Hospital...