Word: liquored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perfectionist. In St. Louis, Liquor Store Manager Floyd Rice gave police such a detailed description of the man who he said had robbed the store of $425 that they got suspicious, quizzed him further, found that he had taken the money himself...
Letter of the Law. In Colorado Springs, a youthful gunman tried to hold up the Royal Liquor Store, fled empty-handed when the proprietor reminded him that, according to state law, he was too young to enter a liquor store...
Pepsi-Cola Co., Encyclopaedia Britannica and Container Corp. of America (TIME, Apr. 30, 1945 et seq.) had all tested and proved the publicity value of fine art. Last week a Manhattan liquor importing firm, Renfield Ltd., was preparing to enter the same field in a small way with a traveling exhibition of twelve oils by the late, lusty, American-scene Painter George Luks...
Massachusetts. Four-year-old Rose Marie Ball got locked in a Roxbury Supermarket after hours; it was two hours before rescue came. At first she cried, while 300 people gathered outside watching her, then she began gobbling down bananas, ice cream, grapes, orangeade. She had just discovered the liquor supply (see cut) when the owner arrived...
...argument. Either someone on the paper was working with the drys, said the weekly, or "the paper has been duped by one of the most obvious and oldest frauds in journalism." Another weekly, the Arizona News (circ. 5,217), thought it was mighty peculiar that the Republic ran "hard liquor advertising ($200,000 worth a year) that drives my daddy to hard drinking...