Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thirsty freshmen will get their beer at the March 10 Smoker after all. Ending three weeks of uneasy tension since the beer license was refused, the Smoker Committee yesterday announced a new plan which will enable it to hand out liquor legally...
...they found them. Virtually every bar that catered to Westerners was wrecked. Three British-and American-owned movie theaters were set afire. Barclays Bank and several British-run clothing stores went up in flames. The sacrosanct Turf Club was invaded, its furnishings smashed, its building set afire, its precious liquor spilled. Even famed Shepheard's Hotel was swept up in the holocaust...
...illness ; in Covington, Ky. Originally a druggist, German-born Remus became a criminal lawyer, turned to bootlegging after seeing how easily he got acquittals for rich dry-law offenders. So wholesale were his operations that, on one occasion, a freight train chuffed into Cincinnati with 18 full carloads of liquor consigned to Remus. After shooting his wife in cold blood, he successfully defended himself on a plea of insanity. Sent to a mental hospital, he quickly proved his sanity and won his freedom by invoking the testimony of the prosecution's three alienists. Remus swore to the end that...
Reverend Dodds encountered no difficulty in obtaining teetotalers to argue for total abstinence from liquor, but spent several fruitless weeks trying to get pro-liquor debaters...
Scott had some other defects as a candidate. In a hard-drinking country, he favored the abolition of hard liquor. He had written a tract on the subject in 1821, and in 1832 he made drunken soldiers dig graves, as a warning of where they were headed. He lost the Irish vote because he had executed some Irish deserters in Mexico, and he lost the anti-Catholic vote because one of his daughters...