Word: liquored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finding spots in which to hear good jamming or to do a little playing yourself, they just don't exist in Beantown. The number of jam joints in any given locality can always be obtained by squaring the difference between midnight and the liquor curfew. In Boston, the curfew is at one. Occasionally, the Stork Club at City Square in Charlestown will see some after-hours playing, but not as the usual thing. Ardent swing fans had best direct their efforts towards the next election...
...Finland's Alcohol Monopoly Board upped the already high price of liquor 50%, and was immediately charged by its akvavit and vodka-loving populace with war profiteering...
Into a San Francisco bar strolled septuagenarian, vegetarian St. Louis Estes, who has made a fortune from talks on raw food, fathered seven sons (all named St. Louis) and seven daughters (four un-named). There he made friends with an unknown couple, took them and two bottles of liquor to his Nob Hill penthouse. While he snoozed, his two guests frisked him of $3,800 and departed. His secretary explained that he had "gone into a tavern, as was his custom from time to time, in order to study human nature, mix with the lower elements, and see what...
Strong-minded Harold Willis Dodds ("No liquor at football games"), president of Princeton University, welcomed undergraduates at the 193rd opening session of Princeton, warned them of propaganda techniques: "You have no weapons to combat them except the clarity and power of your thought processes and a balanced emotional outlook. Let nothing else divert you from using your mind, however painful or drab its use at times may seem...
Affable Negro John Henry Lewis, ex-light-heavyweight U. S. boxing champion, who once hoped to earn enough money fighting to become a preacher without having to depend on a preacher's salary, took a job as liquor salesman...