Word: hooches
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Those Who Dance deals with the horrendous results of drinking illicit hooch made in the U. S. under the filthiest of conditions and tagged with some of the most expensive-looking foreign labels. But it is not a temperance lecture-its moral is put over too painlessly for that. Behind it is an occasionally effective melodramatic structure wherein a man of society, joining the Federal Prohibition forces because of the death of his sister, dons a disguise that would actually mislead the sharp-witted breed, the bootlegger, and succeeds in laying low Demon Rum. Blanche Sweet, Bessie Love and Warner...
...life of Jason; Rembrandt's Portrait of an Old Man, which brought $55,062; four sentimental Boucher panels for $86,184. There were also in the collection paintings by Constable, Hogarth, Raeburn, Turner, Murillo, Canaletto, Ghirlandajo, Andrea del Sarto, Veronese, Rubens, Jordaens, Teniers, Van Dyck, de Hooch, Ruysdael, Ter Borch, Van der Cappelle, Mme. Le Brun...
...Colusa, California, two men were arrested for using a water wagon, of the street-sprinkling variety, to transport " hooch...
...forty-million-mad" nation cannot help but create, and then kill, its artists. Until it learns to read and study the great books within its reach as well as discuss "hooch" and the Hell Gate Bridge, "Nick Carter", with their authors dying forgotten, will continue to be its chief representatives in the field of "non-material achievement...
...course this is a stunt for chemistry students--not for the press--perhaps more than anything else to see what they can do in the line of making "hooch," as outsiders do in concocting "homebrew." It would not do to believe that nitre cocktails have become a steady drink for the boys. VERITAS...