Word: liquored
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...liquor ads have ever appeared in the Curtis magazines (Satevepost, Ladies' Home Journal, Country Gentleman). Not that Curtis is anti-liquor. "All of our directors," President Walter D. Fuller once informed a Curtis Publishing Co. stockholder, "serve liquor moderately in their homes." But liquor ads, Curtis figured, would hurt its readership among church, school, farm and women's groups who never touch the stuff...
...find Friday and Saturday evening dancing on a good sized floor well-stocked with university aged people. A small Marshard unit is the reward for the $2.00 minimum, and as the room grows increasingly darker, the music, through sheer coincidence, becomes increasingly slower. With good dancing, adequate food and liquor, and a quite informal atmosphere, the Camellia Room is a good choice when parietal rules terminate in-room entertaining...
...century of laissez-faire administration, John L. Newcomb, president for a quarter of a century, relinquished his chair this week to Colgate Darden, former governor of the state and chancellor of William and Mary. Darden is an outspoken advocate of limiting the fraternities, which currently enjoy free flowing liquor and a similar interpretation of parietal rules. There are no bars in Charlottesville, so that liquor stores for the alumni "homecoming" weekend of the Harvard football game have been eached since last spring...
Halsey had unbosomed even more perilous confessions. A non-believer in the strict Navy regulations against liquor aboard ship, he had carried 100 gallons of bourbon for his pilots. Said the Admiral: "To a man who has just had a tense, hazardous flight or a wet watch there is no substitute for a tot of sound spirits, as the Royal Navy well knows...
...Reduced liquor consumption could also be foreseen in Luckman's declaration that the distilled spirits industry will be asked to shut down on the use of grain for 60 days in addition to the 50 percent curtailment already promised by 60 percent of the industry...