Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Provoo "made a deep bow" (the witness demonstrated it stiffly in court) and. in fluent Japanese, offered them his services. Thereafter, according to the witnesses' stories, Provoo worked for the Japanese as a combination of bully boy, informer and mess sergeant. He served them tea, provided them with liquor, whipped up three-layer cakes even in times of severe food shortages. Provoo called himself the "boss of Corregidor...
Package store owners are hoping for a cold day. "If it's warm," Varsity Liquor Store manager Frank Purcell said, "They'll buy beer. If it's cold, they'll buy the hard stuff." Brandy and cognac sales have been up all week and almost all of the punch bowls at the Hamilton Liquor Store are rented...
Nobody Asked Him. An insomniac, he reads voraciously when he can't sleep, calls sleeplessness "culture's greatest ally." He drinks from 20 to 30 cups of coffee a day (no liquor), makes regular rounds of such Manhattan hangouts as Toots Shor's, Lindy's, the Stage delicatessen or Sardi's. When Tony Galento, the barrel-shaped bartender-turned-fighter, was flattened by Joe Louis, Cannon wired big (250 Ib.) Toots Shor: "Lay low. This is a bad night for fat saloonkeepers." Scarcely a day passes in season that Cannon doesn...
Taxes. The excess profits tax will probably be allowed to die in June. Excise taxes, long under attack by liquor and other industries, may be lowered where hardship can be proved. The 12% boost in personal income taxes, approved a year ago, may be allowed to expire in December 1953. But businessmen were well aware that the U.S., now running a $10 billion deficit, can only hope for real tax relief if the Republicans find a way to cut waste in military and civilian spending...
...violations of Princeton's famed "Gentlemen's Agreement" on discipline have caused curtailment of liquor and entertainment privileges at Princeton eating clubs for this weekend, the Daily Princetonian reported today...