Word: liquored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Senator Van Nuys also knew the rank & file of the McNutt-Townsend machine, knew how its appointees contribute 2% of their State salaries to the machine's treasury, how scandalous certain of its dealings -in liquor licenses, for example-could be made to look. Republicans began to say nice things about him: as an "independent" he would certainly split the Democratic vote, help a Republican...
...citizens. Post-Repeal's more bizarre tastes run to such concoctions as orange gin, lemon gin and mint gin, products of London & Co., of Elizabeth, N. J., a distillery which has capitalized on the freak market. This year the company applied for a patent on "Liquorized Ice-Cream." As rich and thick as junket but tasting more like an Alexander cocktail, the mixture consists of 5% to 25% liquor (sloe gin, dry gin, rum, whiskey, cognac or Scotch...
...Nearly 50% of the country weeklies refuse ail liquor...
...years that followed he developed in his Graphic column such Winchellese as "the stem" (Broadway), "gigglewater" (liquor), "flicker" and "moom pitcher," which meant the same thing. One year after Winchell left the Vaudeville News for the Graphic, the News folded. He was on the Graphic until 1929, and three years after he left it for the Mirror, the Graphic folded too. By that time it was estimated that 200,000 New Yorkers would follow Winchell to any paper to which he might...
...picture of gold-rush days, but which sounded like something by Ring Lardner in its grave, adolescent comments on the turbulent life aboard the Yukoner. Fights and uproar left young Walter unmoved. "When I came to Alaska," he wrote in his diary, between a discussion of the price of liquor and a quotation from Longfellow, "I made a resolution that I would never take a drink of liquor or ever admit . . . that everything was not all right...