Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...your issue of Aug. 4, you quote me as saying:*"[The Fijis] are free from the influence of movies, radio, liquor and prostitution." This quotation should have been prefaced by the qualifying clause, "Until recently, the Fijis were free...
...doubt whether there is any spot on the face of the earth where the advent of Western business, with its invariable accompaniments of liquor, gambling, prostitution and movies, has had graver consequences in debauching and demoralizing a people than among the inhabitants of the Fiji Islands, who had been lifted from cannibal savagery to simple but admirable Christian living in less than a century by the influence of Christian missions...
...years this cozy little city has been notorious for the ruthless rule of the Cracker Party, an ignorant, illiterate conglomeration of mill hands, job holders, liquor dealers, and small businessmen. Boss Hague never ran a tighter system. Convicts and city materials went into private jobs; plain citizens were jugged for protesting. When Fleming, disgusted with the local scene, opened up on the Crackers, even his friends told him he was crazy to stick his neck out. He wrote, he spoke, he agitated, he became a zealot. In 1943 he published Colonel Effingham's Raid, a Book-of-the-Month...
...some ladies, and members of the working press, who bounce back regularly after each seduction, holding out their empty glasses, eager to sacrifice themselves again. . . ." The press goes for "the story," with one exception-"the sort of fellow who comes to your cocktail party, drinks up all your liquor and then goes away and writes as he pleases. No loyalty. No principles...
Crossfire (RKO Radio). In Richard Brooks's wartime novel, The Brick Foxhole, some U.S. soldiers got drunk on a civilian's liquor, suspected him of being a homosexual, and beat him to death. RKO has changed the civilian (well played by Sam Levene) into a Jew, and Crossfire emerges first in the field in Hollywood's anti-anti-Semitic sweepstakes...