Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Garbett resolutely dug in. A bachelor, he struggled with the malnutritive budgets of swarming slum families. He became an expert in the manipulations of loan sharks, mastered the ins & outs of rent piracy. Today the benign Archbishop of York probably knows more at first hand about rackets, gambling and liquor than any other man in England. He studied the problem of permanent unemployment as voluminously as and at much closer quarters than prolix Beatrice & Sidney Webb (Constitution for the Socialist Commonwealth of Great Britain). Through the Church he encouraged interdenominational efforts to spread social service, free medical services, homes...
Slosson attributes his success to: 1) abstention from liquor and tobacco; 2) training; 3) a natural gift for the game. A grandnephew of James Fenimore Cooper, he played billiards with some of the literary figures of his youth. Last week he recalled them the way a seaman recalls far ports of the earth. Henry Ward Beecher he remembered as a "just ordinary" player. Robert G. Ingersoll and Charles A. Dana were fair amateurs. Mark Twain was "a good fair amateur." Slosson also gave billiard lessons to famed soprano Adelina Patti...
...could say who the author was, but Ontarians, irked by Government liquor restrictions, last week were reciting a new rhyme...
...Prince" Mike Romanoff, Prohibition's most famed impostor, now a successful Hollywood restaurateur, was a pseudo-princely visitor in a 39th-floor suite of Manhattan's swank Hotel Pierre. East on an optimistic liquor-buying trip, the Prince discussed a 33-acre hotel he plans to build in Beverly Hills. Speaking of his former attitude toward the press, he remarked: "The morgue is the god of the Fourth Estate; there, sufficient multiplication of error is its verification as fact. The freedom of the press is the same as poetic license; it allows them to say anything. ... I assure...
...brothers), all members of the Roman Catholic Church's strictest monastic order (Trappists do not converse with one another). For $45,000 they bought 1,464-acre Honey Creek Plantation, which formerly belonged to old-time filmstar Colleen Moore. Said Atlanta's Catholic attorney Hughes Spalding to liquor dealer Mercer Harbin, who sold the farm : "Now, Mercer, I don't want you trying to cheat them." Replied Harbin: "No, sir, that old Abbot looks like he could pray me into Hell in five minutes...