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Word: homebrew (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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American Wines & How to Make Them. A homebrew hornbook...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 12/21/1933 | See Source »

Pardon Us (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is the first full-length comedy made by Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. Hopelessly in effectual in all their doings, they are particularly and painfully inefficient in this picture. First shown planning to manufacture homebrew, they are next seen being sentenced to prison because of their clumsiness. Added to the basic handicap of the Laurel face - blank, ugly, absurd -is the handicap in Pardon Us of a loose tooth which causes him to punctuate all his sentences with a vulgar and sarcastic noise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 31, 1931 | 8/31/1931 | See Source »

...Kentville, N. S., Pryor James 15 years ago built him an ark for a second flood. Recently police suspected him of illegal liquor traffic, found homebrew in the ark. Pryor James barricaded himself in his shanty, opened fire. When he appeared at the door, shotgun in hand, after an all-night siege, police shot him dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Oct. 20, 1930 | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

...lawfully possessed in the home of the maker. Whether this language can be stretched to cover home-brew non-intoxicating in fact is another question but clearly the making of home-made light wines and ciders is not prohibited. . . . Perhaps the act needs clarification on the question of homebrew, although nobody has ever been convicted for making it for home use. ... To those who want beer and light wines, I suggest they be content with what they make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Jersey Brewings | 2/10/1930 | See Source »

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