Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...less fortunate monkeys from the city zoo. Skippit was dressed like Santa Claus and passed out tiny wheelbarrows and toy washboards to his colleagues. In Kansas, whose citizens may legally consume nothing stronger than 3.2 beer, police poured $25,000 worth of whiskey down a drain. But elsewhere liquor sales-particularly of bonded Bourbon-boomed. An Indianapolis liquor dealer contrived a new kind of window display -a Nativity scene set up in a Haig & Haig carton...
While she bustled about the kitchen, M. Paul Miville-Dechêne, the Quebec Liquor Commission's chief accountant (at about $5,000 a year), was looking forward to the midnight Mass. A reserve lieutenant colonel and commander of the Régiment de Quêbec, le père had proudly announced that this year they would go to the Citadel Chapel. He knew that at the fortress chapel the children would get a treat-the singing of Minuit, Chretiens, now seldom heard in French Canadian churches,* as well as a Gregorian chant by a soldiers...
Whether it's the cold or the holiday atmosphere, liquor sales are up. One merchant, however, thought Harvardians themselves were "comparatively temperate this season," for most sales consisted of Scotch and brandy packaged up for "dad." But another observed that plenty of erstwhile ale-customers had been in for whisky in the past week...
...advertising was confined to the ever-popular subject of sex or to typical political promises of unlimited liquor. The possibilities of the air-waves did not escape the attention of two candidates, who played "Smoke, Smoke, Smoke That Cigarette" from their Holworthy window all yesterday afternoon, until cut short by a University police raid...
...after-effects of the tactical toot set in, other parliamentarians felt ashamed. Last week the Diet 1) finally passed the coal bill; 2) agreed that further deliberations should be conducted with "extreme self-containment"; 3) adopted a resolution sponsored by the women Diet members prohibiting the sale of liquor in the Diet restaurant...