Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Progress. In Austin, Tex. sensitive dries on the Legislature's House Liquor Traffic Committee squirmed at the look of the committee's title on its stationery, had it changed to the Committee on Liquor Regulation...
Snakes of God. Outside of medicine, Episcopalian Dr. Kelly was such a bluenose that some thought him against "practically everything that is any fun." He opposed liquor, smoking, and drama which emphasized sex, violence or pie-throwing (pie-throwing gave children the wrong notion of humor). He would not hear of prophylactic stations to prevent venereal disease because it was the business of the churches to prevent exposure. He helped to have Baltimore brothels closed. He considered birth control a "certain mechanical meddling with married life which is abhorrent...
...many silks and bangles" for the gold digging Tondelayo his days are numbered, but before he returns to civilization with a good case of malaria he manages to marry the native minx and thereby snap a few more of boss Pidgeon's nerves. Carlson, Pidgeon, and Frank Morgan (the liquor soaked company doctor) deserve credit for their efforts to add a bit of plausibility to this much over rated story, but the odds are against them...
Roger ("Terrible") Touhy knew all the rackets: liquor, bank stickups, kidnapping. So did his pal, Basil ("The Owl") Banghart, whose skill with a machine gun was a Chicago gangland legend. Both were tough and smart as horsewhips, and proud of being redhots. When a prison official asked Banghart his occupation The Owl boasted: "I'm a thief...
...they were not smart enough to whip the eternal dilemma of the man-hunted. All they gained was liquor and women : as they moved from apartment to apartment they left a trail of bobby pins and empty bottles. Otherwise life was just like prison - except that it was riskier...