Word: liquored
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...English. He was greeted hospitably, despite the fact that he was born in New York State. On his first evening in Tuscaloosa he made the acquaintance of the Southern vin du pays, corn whiskey. He never learned to like it, calls it "as vile and as uglily potent a liquor as ever man has distilled." One day in class he made the innocent mistake of comparing Tuscaloosa's picturesqueness with a North African city. "On the next day six serious young men waited upon me with a petition asking me to retract the state ments I had made with...
...going to zero. Dawes 75, once worth 109? on the gold dollar, closed the week at 53? on the paper dollar. Young 5½s which have brought 91 were bringing 37 paper. Dawes bonds are worth more than Young bonds because they are backed by German customs and liquor revenues, tobacco, beer and sugar taxes. Meanwhile the Reichsbank, despite fresh batches of predictions from Berlin, Paris and London that the mark must now go off gold, maintained an attitude of stubborn insistence upon its so-called "gold standard" which has long been purely theoretical, since...
...packages grew plainer and the sales slowly increased. Value and protracted pleasure became prime factors and children picked all-day suckers, molasses candies and toffee for their money. Repeal, too, flayed its part in the candy business. Some unscrupulous businessmen in New Jersey discovered that candy containing hard liquor could be sold to children. Teachers in Brooklyn and Philadelphia began to note their pupils' dull eyes, thick speech, wobbly walk. The candies, selling for 2? apiece, held benedictine. cherry brandy, rum or cognac. Six of them, the equivalent of a short, stiff cocktail, were enough to make a child...
...Assembly resolved against lynching, military training, liquor, salacious films and block booking (see below), private manufacture of munitions, the Immigration Exclusion Act of 1924, selfish moneymakers...
...weeks. One of the difficulties about Fair-going last year was that a visitor had to do his long-distance tramping with a bottle in his pocket if he expected any refreshment stronger than beer. There are no saloons at the new Fair, but plenty of hard liquor is served with "meals." Hiram Walker had a big whale-backed building inside which an exhibition distillery was humming. Most of last year's real fun was to be had in the ribald Streets of Paris and in the Belgian and Midget Villages. Last week's Fair vistors found...