Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comparing the average comic strip to Li'l Abner is like comparing an ordinary cocktail to a dipperful of Capp's own Kickapoo Joy Juice, a liquor of such stupefying potency that the hardiest citizens of Dogpatch, after the first burning sip, rise into the air, stiff as frozen codfish. Capp tries to give his readers not only a daily belly laugh, satirical Cappian comment on politics, sex, law enforcement, the housing situation and human rapacity, but surrealistic gobbets of action, mystery, horror and adventure as well...
...will be in a separate room, away from the scornful stares of the dress circle, so that customers can take their drinks on the hoof without feeling they are social outcasts. And to help pay the overhead, Mike's new place will have a private banquet room, a liquor store and a gift shop. Explained Mike grandly: "I decided to establish a Romanoff Center. I felt I was entitled to it if the Rockefellers were...
...living U.S. poets, none has lodged poems more surely where they will be hard to get rid of. At its best, Frost's crabapple-tart verse distills into the pure liquor of lyric poetry. Stopping by Woods is one of the loveliest poems ever written. Every U.S. schoolboy knows Birches. His lines carry the tone and temper of New England's dour and canny folk, often have the tren chancy and inevitability of folk sayings. Frost has made "good fences make good neighbors"* part of the language. Chores are "doing things over and over that just...
...first week-and- half grads were walking up the modern, aluminum, brass-rail-less bar to whether beer was being yet. The arrival of a liquor license may provide of the strongest unifying in the center's social life...
...uncomfortable closeness to Russia, increased Communist activity on every side, recurrent strikes and an economic situation that would not settle down, the summer of 1950 was enough to drive Finns to drink. Fact is, it did. A member of Finland's Alcohol Monopoly Board last week revealed that liquor consumption in Finland for June, July and August of this year showed an increase of 20, 22 and 30% over the same months...