Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That night, Harry D. White, a carpenter by trade, opened the package, found inside four bottles of liquor, five boxes of Russian cigarets, and a crested, engraved card. It read: "The Government Purchasing Commission of the Soviet Union in the U.S.A. extends season's greetings...
...alcoholic milk made them feel better, invariably chose the cocktail. Dr. Masserman, who can put two & two together, deduced from this fact that the alcohol evidently removed their inhibitions and dulled their senses, making them less sensitive to shocks. He found that usually he could cure their taste for liquor only by curing their neuroses through psychotherapy. In very rare cases, a cat gradually worked itself out of its fears after repeated drinking. When it began to feel its normal self while sober, it usually went on the wagon...
Saturnalia. Mack's party for Doc was premature. To finance it the boys collected 500 frogs (for which Doc would pay 5? apiece), then traded the frogs to Lee Chong for liquor which they drank while waiting for Doc to show up. When he finally arrived, his house was a shambles. But no Steinbeck story of Monterey could end on so grim a note. All Cannery Row cooperated to make up for the destruction by giving the music-loving old scientist a party they could enjoy, and the book ends with the sound of revelry by night, a saturnalia...
...Money, Liquor, Women. The racketeers started by selling cigarets, watches, personal odds & ends. Then they branched out, sacrificing valuable cargo space to make room for their contraband, some times interrupting vital flights to get rid of it. Plied with women and liquor by well-heeled crooks, more & more U.S. air men became an integral part of the story book international syndicate that used an elaborate network of fences and even secret codes...
Most of Punch's cartoons during World War II have dealt with wartime nuisances on the home front. In the Almanack, the liquor shortage is epitomized by a gloomy Saint Bernard dog whose barrel bears the sign, "No Whisky." The endless rationing and shortages inspired a cartoon of a fish vendor offering a huge fresh sea serpent for sale...