Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Liquor by the Mouthful. Editor Dorson has searched through records of the colonial century for its sharpest incidents, sharpened them still further with careful editing, and made of them a volume that brings the colonial century almost too keenly alive for some 20th Century tastes. The tales of Indian captivity, in particular, are about as easy to take as a tomahawk in the skull: babies bashed to death against trees, a prisoner ripped in half by the main force of some 20 of his captors, another with thumbs cut off and a sharp stake driven...
...colonial life had a lighter side, even when it was turned to the Indians. One John Lawson records how the Indians bought their liquor-by the mouthful. "And for this purpose the buyer always makes choice of his man, which is one that has the greatest mouth, whom he brings to the market with a bowl" to spit the liquor in. "The seller looks narrowly to the man's mouth that measures it, and if he happens to swallow any down . . . the merchant . . . does not scruple to knock the fellow down . . . Thereupon the buyer finds another mouthpiece...
Shephard's smile dissolved when a liquor dealer gave him one curled-lip glance in the New Brunswick, NJ. police station and told the cops, "That's the guy." A dozen other merchants nodded their heads positively. The detectives brought in Betty Lester, the buxom widow he had been sparking, and accused them both of passing bad checks through the length & breadth of New Jersey. At the trial, 16 witnesses testified in their behalf, but the liquor dealer was coldly positive:' Cliff Shephard and Betty Lester were sentenced to nine months in the county workhouse. That...
Close to 1300 passengers including seniors, their dates and parents, left Foster's Wharf at 9 p.m. on the liquor-laden Boston Belle and returned three hours later, slightly the better for wear, from a cruise of Boston Harbor...
...girl named Shirley Armitage, told her with juvenile ferocity: "Once you're with us, you better not tell anybody, or it won't be safe for you to go out at night." They asked a boy named Larry Collins to go along. The five drove to another liquor store, this time in nearby Compton. The two boys went in, leaving the girls to stand guard, and soon came backing out with...