Word: liquored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with a big Imperial R, read: "To discharge his social obligations past and future, we have received commands from his Imperial Highness, Prince Michael Romanoff, to invite ( ) to a buffet supper on Saturday evening, June the tenth, at the Clover Club."; and continuing: "Guests will please bring their own liquor and fee the servants...
...Liquor and the dance hall are responsible for 50 per cent of the murders in America...
Frank Murphy was confirmed in the Catholic Church at Harbor Beach, Mich., when he was twelve years old. That year all the children in his class at the parish church pledged themselves to drink no alcoholic liquor before their majority. For fervid Frank Murphy that was not enough. He went home, took a further pledge: to his adored mother he vowed he would not touch a drop so long as he lived...
...seven women, another for 107 men); 2) absence of any laundry facilities; 3) the difficulty of getting enough to eat in one dining car; and 4) the fact that when the King arrives in a town that day automatically becomes a legal holiday, thereby occasioning the closing of all liquor stores...
Concrete, crushed stone, pipe, real estate and liquor were some of the business sidelines from which leathery old Tom Pendergast drew copious revenue during his long reign as Democratic boss of Kansas City. When Pendergast was indicted last month for evading Federal income taxes on $315,000 of alleged boodle received in 1935 from an insurance rate "fixing" (TIME, April 17), one man quizzed closely by the Treasury's agents was Edward L. Schneider, secretary-treasurer of eight of the Boss's businesses. Fortnight ago, presumably on Schneider's testimony primarily, Boss Pendergast was indicted again, this...