Word: liquored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...March of Time takes a look at the liquor business with side glances at the W.C.T.U. and similar crusaders, the recent history of the Turks and Ataturk, and the origin of swing music in the Dixieland Jazz Band...
Hickingbotham Jr., onetime Rhodes Scholar; in Oakland, Calif. Married, Princess Alexandrine Louise Caroline Matilda Dagmar of Denmark, 22, niece of King Christian X; and Count Luitpold Alfred Frederic Charles zu Castell-Castell, 32, of Munich; in Copenhagen. Married. Francis Townsend Hunter, 42, oldtime U. S. Davis Cup tennist, Manhattan liquor dealer and co-promoter of the Fred Perry-Ellsworth Vines professional tennis tour; and Marjorie Franklin, 30, Manhattan dress-buyer; in Greenwich, Conn. Died, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, son of Clare Consuelo Sheridan, British sculptor and travel-writer, great-great-great-grandson of 18th Century Irish dramatist Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan...
While members of the American National Livestock Association were parching in El Paso last week another convention in Chicago was setting records for liquor consumption, big buying and fun. This was fitting, for the National Association of Coin Operated Machine Manufacturers is most precisely in the fun business. In the spacious, hearty Hotel Sherman, no manufacturers exhibited about 1,000 coin machines on an acre of ball room, for which they paid $1.50 a sq. ft., and in private show rooms most of which were equipped with bars. To their convivial customers they sold $5,000,000 worth of nickel...
Down upon El Paso's 217 bars last week swooped ten inspectors dispatched by the Texas Liquor Control Board to enforce the State law against the sale of hard liquor by the drink. El Paso never took Prohibition very seriously because Mexico's gay Juarez was always just across the Rio Grande River over 2^ toll bridges. Lately the city has been wide-open in defiance of State law. What annoyed the city's barkeepers last week was that the inspectors arrived two days before the 40th annual convention of the American National Livestock Association brought...
...Well," said the perpetrator later, as he was making an inventory of his liquor closet, "I'm going to fill it with champagne Thursday morning so that people won't take their exams too seriously...