Word: liquored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...England Journal of Medicine. An alcoholic is given an injection of emetine* (a nauseating drug derived from ipecac). Just before he vomits, he downs a glass of his favorite drink. After several such experiences, the patient begins to detest the taste, smell-or even sight-of liquor. Drs. Paul O'Hollaren and Frederick Lemere made their report from tests at Seattle's Shadel Sanitarium...
...110th time this year, police haled David Douglas Davenport into court, charged him, as usual, with illegally selling liquor in Washington's Union Station, saw him, as usual, prepare to beat the rap. Davenport keeps his liquor in station lockers, sells the key-not the liquor-to his customers. To avoid charges of loitering, he always carries a ticket to Baltimore in his pocket...
Earl has absolute control over more than 40 state boards, departments and commissions. He holds the liquor industry under his thumb by means of a board with vast regulatory powers. He can influence Louisiana's $204 million oil industry, its $14 million sulphur industry, its $112 million lumber industry through his Conservation Commission...
...virtual prisoners of a gangster named Rocco (Edward G. Robinson), his gunmen (Thomas Gomez, Harry Lewis, Dan Seymour) and his wretched mistress (Claire Trevor). These interlopers are living ghosts of the 1920s, slipping back into the U.S. from Cuba. Barring the pathetic-mistress, who is half drowned in liquor, they are mortally dangerous people...
...club itself doesn't make Hover as much money as his sidelines: Giro lipsticks, cigarette lighters, ashtrays, glassware. He makes his own ice cubes, carbonates his own water, and runs annual concerts-starring Xavier Cugat-in the Hollywood Bowl. Even juicier dividends come from the off-premises liquor sales and a catering service which runs many of the major studio parties. "I have found," Hover says, "that people will buy anything with the name Giro...