Word: liquored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Halley produced Costello's 1925 naturalization papers, noted that he had failed to state he had once used the name Frank Severio, and that he had denied he had been in the bootlegging business. At that, Halley whipped out Costello's testimony to the state liquor authority in 1947, admitting he had bootlegged from 1923 to 1926. Said Costello sulkily: "I didn't sell no liquor prior to '25. I might have expressed it the wrong way . . . But now, to my recollection, thinking it over . . ." Observed Senator Tobey: "Is not the man who made the false...
...presented last week by the National Committee for Fair Emergency Excise Taxation, a group of 50 leading businessmen who have long been asking for repeal of the wartime excise taxes on the products they make. Last week they launched an attack on all excise taxes except those on liquor, gasoline and tobacco, and substitution of a flat sales tax on everything except food, rent and medicines. Spokesman for the committee was old New Dealer Leon Henderson onetime head of OPA. A sales tax, he argued, would produce revenue quickly, discourage spending, spread the increased tax load to all income brackets...
World" and the "Happy World" amusement parks are breaking all previous attendance records; consumption of liquor is at an alltime high...
Mature Conclusion. In St. Petersburg, Fla., a 90-year-old man won suspension of a $15 fine for drunkenness, after pleading, "I'm swearing off liquor for the rest of my life. I'm old enough to have known better...
...swashbuckling stage piece about the Ireland that ran more to liquor than to leprechauns, The King of Friday's Men has some of the old Irish gift of words, while Dowd has some of the mighty human dimensions of folklore. And Actor Macken, who first played the part at the Abbey, brings real vigor to it, and the smack and caress of Irish speech. But the play's snatches of racy prose do not offset its stretches of lumpish playwriting. Too often both untidy and oldfashioned, it closed after four performances...