Word: liquored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arrested next night for tossing liquor bottles, dishes, a suitcase and a typewriter out of the apartment window. Subdued with a nightstick, the gibbering Representative, shoeless and stripped to the waist, was carted to jail, spent two hours there before his secretary appeared with $25 bail...
...evening last week some 25 people were crowded into the provincial liquor store of Sarnia, Ont., just across the St. Clair River from Port Huron, Mich. Into the shop stepped two holdup men, one small and wizened, the other masked with a black silk handkerchief. Both waved revolvers, made the customers line up face to the wall while the larger bandit climbed the wire partition to the cashier's drawer, scooped up the cash, climbed back again, ordering all the customers to file into the liquor room. What happened next was best described by one Jack Cosley...
...trial a number of Cleveland's ex-bootleggers showed up to give the jury their idea of the money's source. During the palmy days of Prohibition, they testified, Captain Cadek systematically jailed every liquor dealer in his territory who failed to give him handsome, periodic bribes. So well understood was Captain Cadek's policy that on one occasion the 'leggers combined to tender the "Skipper" a pig-roast and clambake, at which they presented him with two beer kegs so stuffed with currency that it had to be stamped down before Captain Cadek could...
...funny how big women like me are always getting tangled up with little bitty men? One of my husbands was a jockey only 5 ft. tall. I've married army flyers and jockeys so far. I'm a good-time girl. Clothes, music, lights, dancing and liquor-what else is there when a girl is young...
...majority of my alcoholic women stated they disliked the taste of liquor and felt that the main thing to be obtained from drinking was a lessening of their own tension and an increasing of their sociability. . . . Women drunkards have a strong attachment to their mothers, strong narcissism and strong inter-tension, making social contact difficult. . . . The alcoholic woman is always striving for social recognition and fears this will not be given. She experiences feelings of sexual inferiority and projects it in hallucinations to the outside world."-Dr. Frank Joseph Curran, Manhattan...