Word: liquored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...surpassed by none. We have as good a State Administration and as great an Executive as any of the larger States. In our Governor we have gone forward by leaps & bounds and have led most of the States with our school system, fair and just tax program, highway improvements, liquor handling, etc. We would be willing to put Governor H. G. Kump up for comparison with any Governor in these 48 States. He has had birthdays, marriages in his family and done many important things in his term of office, but I have never been able to find them recorded...
...residents of Tristan da Cunha, "world's loneliest island," in the South Atlantic midway between South Africa and South America, possess no cinema, no radio, no automobiles, no police, no liquor, live in rigidly moral communism on potatoes and fish, have practically perfect teeth and general health. Of mixed English-Scotch-Irish-American-Dutch-Italian-African descent, most of their ancestors got to the bleak volcanic island by way of shipwreck. Also from a wrecked ship, in 1882, arrived rats which multiplied faster than mariners...
...club is restricted to a few charter members, while the dues are $.25 a week. They will be collected up to the night of the third, when they will be spent on liquor to cheer up the Democrats in the club and further arouse the Republicans...
...graph, charting this parallel record of the expanding use of liquor with the general upward trend in automobile deaths, becomes its own commentator and manifestly makes it difficult . . . to successfully challenge the conclusion that an increased consumption of alcoholic beverages must be regarded as a definite factor in the endlessly growing record of automobile tragedy...
...class, lifts her into the family of a powerful bootlegger named Tom Halsey. Despising her husband, Halsey's weak-kneed son, she breaks away from him as soon as she discovers that the comfort he provides cannot end her restlessness. She loves to drive, gets a job running liquor over the mountains. Once she drives her car into the car of Federal agents to prevent the capture of a valuable liquor stock. She becomes notorious as the girl rumrunner, dresses expensively, always carries a telegram saying her husband has been hurt to explain her speeding when she is stopped...