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...fancy grocery that had purveyed rich & rare foodstuffs to Manhattan's best tables for 112 years. A. M. & C.'s small, lacquered delivery wagons and well-turned out horses were a familiar sight in pre-War Manhattan. Until Prohibition smart households bought much of their whiskey, gin, ales, wines, liqueurs and cigars from Acker, Merrall & Condit. Its wholesale tobacco business was sold to Faber, Coe & Greggs...
...shines on an average of 304 days a year. The cost of living is below the U. S. city average (a good twelve-room unfurnished house and garage rent for $1,000 a year, taxes are $32.25, steak is 34¢ a lb.). Denverites drink bad whiskey and gin, little beer. Water is precious yet Denver wastes it. Says the Water Board: "Once you get hold of a flow of water, if you don't use it you forfeit it to someone who will." Last week, however, citizens were allowed to water their lush, green lawns for only three hours...
...Linden, a smart-cracking admirer. They turn over, Linden is mortally injured. Dorothy Wilson's injuries are bad enough to make Arlene Judge relent when she-sees the reunion of Wilson & Cromwell. Notably absent from The Age of Consent are football games, cheers, banners. There is only one gin party...
...piny, sandy, swank Aiken, S. C. and found it good. There she established a school, named it Fermata. In 1926 Fermata School was taken over by F. A. M. Tabor, owner of Aiken Preparatory School for boys. Principal Tabor moved the school to its present site at Whiskey Road & Gin Lane. He expanded the plant with tennis courts, gymnasium, outdoor swimming pool. A Cambridge man, brother-in-law of Sir John Broderick, onetime commercial counsellor at the British Embassy in Washington, Principal Tabor invested Fermata with a strongly British atmosphere...
...organization to be known as the 'Liquor Drinkers of America,' that we get together immediately and act at once before it is too late. All are eligible as members who drink at any time any of the following: Corn liquor, rye, barley, white mule, gin, moonshine, or any of the other excellent brands. . . ." It is reported to me that Mr. Bradford's organization has had unprecedented growth. . . . NELSON T. LEVINGS...