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Word: hooch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Intimate Glimpses into the Life of a Bootlegger"--An interview with a peerless peddler of hooch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FEATURES OF TOMORROW'S 22-PAGE CRIMSON | 11/22/1929 | See Source »

Among the paintings on exhibition are several interiors by Pieter de Hooch; a portrait and an interior by Terborch; a banquet scene by Dirk Hals; landscapes by Hobbema and Ruisdael, and a portrait by Antonio Moro...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOGG MUSEUM EXHIBITS WORKS OF DUTCH MASTERS | 4/20/1928 | See Source »

...Crenshaw, Yale '25: "There are too many graduate schools and not enough college. Also too many bootleggers, the first thing that assaulted me in Cambridge was a purveyor of hooch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elis Expound Varied Theories in Diagnosis of Harvard Ailments--Many Blame Rum, Red Tape | 11/19/1927 | See Source »

Fifteen dollars a year will insure you against any bad "hooch" that you may have. It protects you as well as your friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Cheap Insurance | 2/9/1925 | See Source »

...could we expect a poor foreigner to under stand our national game?' ... I have nothing against the stadia (or stadiums or stadiumses, or whatever you wish to call them in an un-Greek age). This is a free world. Go ahead and build all the stadiums and hooch-factories and bawdey-houses you wish, but do not build them on the campus ... Of course I know the usual answer; the cheering crowds, the gay sights, the strong virile hemen, idolizing the even stronger, more virile he-coach, the grand young future before the boy that makes the winning punt, admitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Symposium | 12/15/1924 | See Source »

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