Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have never "invested," you know Harvard Square's bookies and pick-up men as "solid citizens" who work in or run certain shocshine parlors, liquor stores, dry-cleaning establishments, newsstands, and bars...
...year-old, all-steel excursion boat "Boston Belle" will depart from Company's Pier, Atlantic Avenue, at 8:40 p.m. June 20, chartered by the class. There will be liquor aboard, and the entire middle deck of the boat will be given over to dancing, Coombs said. The boat will dock at midnight...
However, I cannot agree with your description of me as a "banjo-twanging playboy." I do play the banjo . . . [but if] you have in mind the commonly accepted definition of one who leads a life of lazy indolence, imbibes freely of strong liquor and chases women, then I must take issue with you. Mrs. Taylor and I lead a very quiet life. We seldom entertain and seldom go out except to official functions. My drinking is limited to an occasional highball. I have been absolutely faithful to my wife for all the 20 years of our happy marriage. I work...
...Catholics we abominate and we condemn syndicated crime and vice. It is as despicable as it is evil. We condemn the underworld and all its barbarous and cowardly ways. But we condemn also the overworld-liquor executives, public officials . . . and the like who, though able to retain the aura of respectability, sacrifice every decent principle for their own contemptible and selfish ends...
...rest of your boys?" They had wanted a dozen students about to lend an atmosphere for the benefit of the newspapers, and he was plainly disappointed that the Harvards hadn't arrived yet. I explained that they would appear shortly, and he seemed relieved. "Well, help yourself to the liquor and the hors d'oeuvres," he said, edging away...