Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Western Union reported an unusual number of sad telegrams and the winds made it tough on the "hot roasted peanuts." The early season small bottle was replaced by the larger size as liquor sales gurgled ahead. It was, as one local merchant put it, "a fairly rewarding...
...Hold Your Liquor...
...needs to learn how to hold his liquor," the master of Silliman College, Theodore M. Greene, said, "he might as well o it under home conditions. There's no use forcing him to go to a West Haven bar ... they've got to go awfully wild before I'll damp them." When damping is necessary, it usually takes the form of discreet removal from the scene of trouble and then gentle counsel--on first offense. If the wicked fail to learn, the Masters may ask them to resign from the College, or at worst, suspend or expel from the College...
...Prohibition got just as cold a shoulder. Arizona defeated a local option proposal; Oregon declined to ban the sale of "promotively advertised" liquor; South Dakota ruled it was all right to serve food and liquor in the same establishment; and Arkansas walloped a measure setting up statewide Prohibition, and making possession of more than a quart of liquor a crime...
...York City last week, associations of tavern-owners and saloonkeepers called sad-faced meetings to consider the rising cost of beer. "I don't think we'll be able to reduce the size of the glass," said President Robert Degnan of the United Restaurant Liquor Dealers of Manhattan, Inc. "There wouldn't be anything left." That left only one solution-the 15^ beer...