Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have been trying to relieve the situation for freshmen and sophomores. It does not seem probable that Princeton men will be allowed to entertain women in dormitory rooms past seven o'clock in the near future, and the college has shown no inclination to stump for liberalized New Jersey Liquor laws. But a former administration building is now undergoing redecoration as a "Campus Center," complete with commons rooms, recreation facilities and snack bars...
...Arizona Synod of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern) faced up to a ticklish question after Governor J. Howard Pyle requested Presbyterian views: Should Arizona remove the state ban on the sale of liquor to Indians, as a step in establishing full civil rights for them? "I don't see how any Christian can say anything to the liquor traffic but 'No!' " cried the Rev. E. P. Smith, missionary from the Navaho reservation. But after short, sharp debate (and a score of abstentions), the synod recommended lifting the ban. Vote...
...eloquent, to be amorous. Homet not only handles all these individual assignments excellently, he ties them into a sharp, consistent characterization. Too often actors playing the crusading professor let the wit of authors James Thurber and Elliot Nugent carry scenes for them. In Homet's battle with liquor in the second act, however, there is no coasting. It is his highest point in an evening of good touches...
...took her to Kansas City, where, after her divorce, he married her. He used to come back to Pleasanton in a Cadillac convertible with men whom he fatuously introduced as "my broker" and "my lawyer." During the next four years, he lost money playing the stock market, in liquor-store ventures and in an airplane crop-dusting business. He drank and gambled. His wife left him. He turned to passing bad checks in hospitals, and then to holding up cab drivers. In 1952, he went to the Missouri penitentiary for robbery...
...prosperous farmer. In St. Joe, she had been known for 20 years as the attractive wife of a livestock broker, with whom she attended square dances and club meetings. A year ago, her personality seemed to change. She divorced her husband. She took to swilling a quart of liquor a day and arriving drunk at the shows where her boxer dogs were being exhibited...