Word: liquored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Frank Costello, and he fired no shots himself; he had long since quit packing a gun. He was a big shot from the start-a fixer, conniver, ship operator and financier-who did his work in an office at 405 Lexington Avenue, made business trips to Montreal to buy liquor from Canadian and European exporters, took enormous risks and made enormous profits. He also kept himself so shadowy and unobtrusive a figure that when U.S. Attorney Emory Buckner made a desperate but unsuccessful effort to smash the liquor racket, Costello was erroneously charged with being an accomplice rather than...
...ingredients were there, however. The thousands who piled off special trains, buses, and planes headed immediately for the liquor dispensaries. And the Yalies and their guests then jammed the steps of the Freshman Commons to cheer Herman Hickman, Levi Jackson, the Eli team, and God and country...
...reason for the widespread mourning was an official statement issued by President Robert Sproul banning liquor and unchaperoned parties for "all fraternities, sororities and living groups." The campus blue law also ruled that "mixed gatherings of men and women shall be restricted to public rooms on main floors...
Eugene Acevedo Granillo was only 20 years old, had no business hanging around a bar, and didn't know how to handle his liquor. For these missteps he paid last week with his life. Entering the 101 Café in Downey, a suburb of Los Angeles, he flashed a driver's license to prove he was 24. He ordered up a couple of beers while the jukebox was grinding out Jealous Heart, danced about, began fooling around the shuffleboard game. Then Granillo tossed a couple of heavy shuffleboard weights across the crowded room. Bartender Edgar Gray (at right...
However, more than a $1,000,000 of the endowment is invested in a group of liquor companies that make such products as Ruppert's Beer, Four Roses, Lord Calvert, and Old Grand...