Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heart attack; in hometown Greenville, S.C. His part in the "Black Sox" scandal was complicated by the facts that he 1) was almost illiterate, 2) batted .375 in the series, 3) probably never received the $20,000 promised, 4) later repudiated his confession. In later years, from his liquor store in Greenville, he periodically protested that he was innocent, never convinced baseball's bigwigs...
Replying to the criticism that the prohibition of anything stronger than punch was destroying interest in the college dances. Whiteman declared that "if we need liquor to sustain the college system then we had better abandon the college system...
...other officers named yesterday were Richard S. Dolins of Holworthy, and Guy J. Clannavel, the commuter representative who will handle Entertainment. Frederick L. Bernstein of Hollis and Augustus L. Smith of Straus will tackle the pressing liquor problem and T. Russell McGrath will be in charge of staging the show...
...identity between the two cowboys, both played by Howard Keel. But the picture picks up most of its fun en route, in the desperate connivance and tart wisecracks of MacMurray and McGuire, the elaborate innocence of Callaway's double, the real Smoky's talent for caching liquor so cleverly that he stays bewilderingly plastered throughout his alcoholic cure. Hopalong, however, need not call the sheriff. Callaway bares its teeth only to grin, not to bite; and it provides parents with welcome comic relief from the hoofbeats that have invaded the U.S. home...
...Best Policy. In Hot Springs, Ark., after Moonshiner Martin Kizzar hunted up a tax collector and paid $73.50 on a batch of homemade whiskey, he was arrested for making illegal liquor, put on probation by the judge, who ruled that Kizzar was too honest to be jailed...