Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these guys actually believe they're God," said one. Explained another: "Suppose a D.J. calls New York and says he wants to see the city. What are you going to tell him-to pay for it himself? You pay for his hotel and his meals and his liquor, and if he wants a girl you pay for that. An average New York weekend will cost the record company $500 to $1,000, and if you don't pay it there's another company that will...
Occasionally, the hard trading instincts of M.I.T.'s trustees have softened ever so little. The trustees once decided that the liquor industry was a good investment, decided to try whisky stocks. When Vance, Sanders got wind of the plan, it was horrified. A partner gathered up the cards of 1,200 M.I.T. shareholders, walked into a trustee meeting and threw them on the table. They represented Baptist institutions, Christian Scientists, Catholic convents, and other investors who might take a dim view of liquor-even in their portfolios. The trustees hastily backed down...
...Attorney General Will Wilson cracked down on vice, padlocked gambling joints and brothels, arrested tavern owners, dumped most of Galveston's slot machines into the Gulf of Mexico. Sin has had tough going since then, what with the presence of two Texas Rangers and spot raids by state liquor agents, and the madams, hoodlums and gambling interests have never felt the same about George Clough, who allowed it all to happen...
...During the war, the Sultan gave $4,200,000 to the British war effort, did not lose heart even when the Japanese swept down through Johore and captured Singapore. With his wife he swore off liquor until the British reconquest. When Johore was "liberated" in 1945, the joyous Sultan cried out: "Now we can break our vow. Open the champagne...
Although the wives of heavy drinkers usually complain bitterly about their husbands' behavior, liquor can be the cement that holds the union together. Many a spouse of a souse, the University of Pittsburgh's Dr. William Browne told the A.P.A., has an unconscious need for an alcoholically incompetent mate, because only thus can she be dominant. Curing a husband of alcoholism. Dr. Browne said, may make the wife ill, even drive her to drink...