Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Europe to meet King Albert of the Belgians, she licked Baedekers to make her lips red and practiced walking like Parisian coquettes. (She was 14.) She was unawed by the $865,000 palace her father built at 2020 Massachusetts Avenue in Washington. She swiped creme de menthe from his liquor closet, squandered her allowance on ermine tails, and ruined the nerves of a series of hapless governesses...
Herman F. Willkie, liquor-distilling elder brother of the late Wendell, announced that it is silly for anyone to do uncongenial work: "It is possible to make a living at almost anything. . . . One might as well work at something he likes...
...alcohol will seep into the evening's festivities, Hughes learned to his sorrow, since a Massachusetts law outlaws liquor as a contest reward...
...been a pretty hopeless drunkard since he was 18. In sober intervals, he managed to succeed as a poet and novelist. Married twice, he had sacrificed both devoted women, in turn, to his love for liquor. All the usual treatments had failed: psychiatry, mental hospitals, sanitariums, Alcoholics Anonymous. Knowin, that he was on the verge of insanity, and terrified by his hallucinations, he took a job as attendant in a mental hospital. That...
...many thousands stormed his gates for jobs that Ford officials had fire hoses turned on them. But there were moral strings attached to the profit-sharing. He appointed the dean of St. Paul's to see that the money went into wholesome food, Ford cars, etc.-not into liquor and riotous living...