Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...However, in the light of [what has happened], the News-Star feels an obligation to publish his past in full. We regret not having done so before." The record, spread across two columns of the paper, showed that Sheriff Harrington had been arrested three times for selling and transporting liquor. After his last arrest in 1940, he got a suspended sentence of a year and a day, and had his right to vote revoked...
Texas law, as it happens, prohibits pros titution, gambling and sale of liquor by the drink. In Galveston* (pop. 65,000) all three flourish. When a state crime committee investigated the situation, Herbie Cartwright told the legislators frankly that the laws of Texas are vio lated in Galveston because Galvestonians think the laws are wrong...
...Hard liquor-or tea-is available in the theater between acts...
Aptitude Test. In Chicago, heavyhanded Burglar Walter Pernal climbed an outside apartment-house stairway in broad daylight, smashed a window with such a resounding crash that an upstairs tenant phoned police, drank so much liquor in the apartment that he was helpless to resist arrest...
Under the intoning guru's direction, the Shakta women and Naji took off their blouses and put them in a large earthenware jar, and the group drank liquor and feasted on goat flesh. But when Naji discovered the meaning of the ceremony, she refused to participate further. "You must take part in our sacrament," said the guru. Husband Odia also insisted. When her blouse was drawn from the jar, Naji ran off into the darkness...