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...LIKKER-Irvin S. Cobb-Cosmopolitan...
Kentucky is the State once proud of its whiskey, women and steeds. Of his native State's whiskey from the pioneers to the Prohibitionists, Author Cobb betrays some knowledge. Excerpt: "Just about the time they first began making red likker here in Kentucky, which was back in pioneer days, there was a craze on for French names among our people. As a result there's a Bourbon County and a Fayette County and a town named Paris and a town named Versailles . . . so maybe they named it [red likker] for Bourbon County...
...Author. Although Red Likker may sell well, Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb is no booklegger. Cautious not to offend Cobb-clients, he leaves the great Prohibition novel a thing yet to be written. But Mr. Cobb in action is less cautious than Novelist Cobb. Says he, lately elected Chairman of the Association against the Prohibition Amendment...
Down in Doyers St., Manhattan, the miserables of the island, unostentatiously mouch along. Drunks muse on the likelihood of panhandling the price of a finger or two of "likker" (anything with alcoholic content). Drug addicts deviously ponder methods of getting another "shot of morph" (hypodermic injection of morphine), or a "sniff of snow" (nasal inhalation of crystalline cocaine). Homeless and friendless they are for the most part, and normally mindful of their own fuzzy, vague affairs...
...boys' school who on the death of his uncle becomes automatically possessed of the latter's Boston house and cheerful $20,000 income, and on his own account, of an engaging ability to play around with flappers and gay young dogs, speak their language, drink their "likker," go dancing, ice-skating and swimming with them...