Word: gins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...effect, amends only those parts of the Volstead Act which today limit the alcoholic content of "beer, lager beer, ale, porter" to ½%. Whiskey, gin, rum, wine and the like are still left legally taboo. Untouched are the scale of penalties for Prohibition violations. As large and complex as ever are the restrictions on industrial alcohol. H. R. 13,312, with many a change in definition, does nothing more than set up a complete legal exception for 3.2% beer from the 18th Amendment. To raise revenue it taxes the new beer $5 per bbl.?the brewers' chosen figure?thus...
...field trips throughout Manhattan. Fortnight ago came news of another Progressive school, young and bold, in many respects unique in the U. S. Croton-on-Hudson. N. Y. is a quiet village near Harmon, where New York Central trains exchange steam for electricity. The sprawling, bridge-playing, gin-drinking suburbs of New York have not yet entangled it. In Croton, seven years ago, settled Economist Stuart Chase, his wife Margaret Hatfield, Elizabeth Moos, a former teacher at Walden and other modern schools, and her husband Robert Imandt, violinist, onetime French Army man, camp director. Between them Miss Hatfield and Miss...
...forthwith a chipper reaction to the intricacies of Lady Macbeth. The domain bounded by green glass and shiny labels has obviously been too long neglected by purveyors of modern education. But the thought occurs,--imagine rising with a hangover to greet a nine o'clock on the "Amenities of Gin," and an eleven o'clock laboratory exercise in "The Art of the little finger as applied to Chartreusel...
...seriously, but he remembered that it would be filled with cynical bad taste and journalisic perversions of the English language; this was no day to make allowances for a Yale education; Time was passed in judgment. Then there was that magazine in dull green; the Vagabond could taste bad gin, and the contents of the monthly revolted...
...Lahr's noisy gullet has seldom been put to wider use.. He is successively a slightly bewildered master of a trained dog act ("to train dogs takes a lot of time, patience-and dogs"); an imitator of mammy-singers and Clifton Webb; a manufacturer of bath-tub gin; the victim of a barber's nervous-handed wife; a man undergoing the third-degree and sticking to his "lullaby...