Word: liquored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago company put up pickles in 20 flavors of liquor (nonalcoholic). Those who liked their pickles straight could down them and taste bourbon, brandy, rum or Scotch. For mixed-picklers, there were Manhattans, Martinis and Daiquiris...
...last year one of New York's liquor inspectors caught Manhattan Retailer Edward Sidney Levine with his Schenley Reserve down. Levine had slashed the price from $4.05 to $3.75 a fifth. That was less than he was permitted to sell it for under New York's "fair trade" law which, like price-fixing laws in 44 other states, permits manufacturers to set minimum retail prices...
...York's State Liquor Authority took away Levine's license for ten days. Levine cut prices again and the board again suspended him. After a third offense last March he lost his license...
...arrived with a bouquet of roses for Mrs. Hendl, and then proceeded to spend the rest of the evening teaching Hendl different kinds of solitaire which he uses when traveling. Hendl had a wonderful evening, but when it was over, his house was completely bare of food and liquor. The next day, Mrs. Hendl, who is a painter, decided to do a still life of the roses which Munch had brought. The story eventually hit the papers, and Munch read it is a Swiss journal while he was a in Geneva. He kept the clipping, and months later when...
...Liquor also was used to lubricate the famous Tree Exercises on occasion. This tree stood between Harvard Hall, Hollis, and Holden Chapel; around 1815, seniors used to gather around it to sing and give cheers for such individuals as the president or a favorite janitor at the direction of the marshal. Later on, all classes joined hands and whirled in dizzy circles around the tree, "till all the college is swaying in the unwieldy ring," as Lowell reported it. A wreath of flowers was hung from one branch, and there were horse battles among the crowd to reach the wreath...