Word: liquored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Literary figures of other days talk stridently of what they could be writing. Yonder the Great Lover is educating Radcliffe, while a nearby group of almost-clubmen watch him with scornful interest. Frustration wanders quietly from booth to booth, barely perceptible through the fumes of smoke and noise and liquor...
...arms traffic will continue by hook or crook. Publicity is not the weapon, however, with which to control. The very thought of publicity let loose on the normal, necessary arms traffic, a publicity that would souse the greater pulps into war scares as liquor puts a drunkard into the gutter, is a ripe tomato in the face of common sense. Have private registration of arms at Geneva; have careful investigations of their use and shipment; but keep the results for intelligent deliberation by accredited representatives; don't ladle the intoxicant to a world press that's raking its lucre...
John Harvard's mother went to school with Shakespeare; Harvard knew as a boy the Great Bard, and his Inn, the sale of which supplied the money for the donation to the University, was often fined for selling liquor during church hours. Such were among the interesting facts brought out by Frank W. C. Hersey '99, instructor in English, in his talk before the Memorial Society, last night in the Adams House Upper Common Room...
...Blyth, Ont., John Cowan got a job as police chief, street inspector, sanitary engineer, weed inspector, Memorial Hall caretaker, trusty clerk, liquor law enforcement officer, clerk of the weigh scales, school bellringer and Town Council handyman. Salary: $600 a year...
...month, he explained, because they still want to use both hands to keep their balance. But after that they are willing to trust their lives to one hand and can do some work. "Cigarettes ease the nerves," he said, "and I'm a strong smoker. . . But stay away from liquor if you want to ride the girders...