Word: liquored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Almost all U. S. colleges have some kind of rule to regulate drinking, but last week the University of Pennsylvania decided to enforce one. Since Repeal, liquor has flowed freely in Penn's fraternity houses and four have cropped out with bars. Because 31 of the houses have been transferred to University ownership to escape taxes, they fall under a University rule which prohibits drinking on University property. This year the Interfraternity Council, at the suggestion of Penn's administration, circulated a questionnaire which revealed that not one fraternity house was dry. As the University announced last week...
...polling Literary Digest announced that college drinking was in the course of a "great boom," although of 581 U. S. colleges, 436 forbid students to drink at all, 105 have restrictions, only 40 have no special rule. Stanford severely provides that "the possession, transportation or use of intoxicating liquors ... in the university shall be grounds for expulsion." Perhaps the most lenient administration is Harvard's. Students may not only drink what & when they like, but they may charge cracked ice and soda water on their term bills. Princeton men are not allowed to drink in their rooms, and Princeton...
...Copenhagen, Professor Auguste Piccard announced that he would attempt to break the 72,395-ft. stratosphere record of Major Orvil A. Anderson & Captain Albert W. Stevens (TIME. Nov. 18, 1935) needed $60,000 backing for which he would consider offers from all but liquor and tobacco sellers. Said he: "Any firm dealing in soap, motorcars, vacuum cleaners or whatnot will...
Leaning from the second-story porch of his Cleveland home to repair a flower box. famed Baseball Outfielder Tris Speaker 'Cleveland Indians), 48, now a wholesale liquor dealer, plunged headfirst to the ground when the railing collapsed, fractured his arm, slashed his cheek, received serious internal injuries...
...Kansas City, at their second annual convention and dance the local chapter of the Missouri State Liquor Dealers' Association strictly banned all liquor. Explained Business Manager M. E. O'Connell: "We are trying to educate the public ... I mean, we want to show we are not a bunch of rumheads and boozers...