Word: liquored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Maria Isaeva was blonde, thin, neurotic and married. Her drunken clod of a husband was controller of the distillation and sale of liquor in Semipalatinsk, the Siberian border town to which Dostoevsky was sent as an army private after his release from prison. Soon the smitten 33-year-old soldier and the sensitive lady were holding hands and crying into each other's sweet tea while hubby sprawled in a drunken stupor on the divan. After Isaev died, they were married. But Maria was frigid, and Dostoevsky was soon complaining: "We're living so-so . . . The heart will...
...really don't think we are being hysterical or anything. But look here, this fellow Spectorsky, has he or has he not been drinking our liquor for years...
Mahogany Hall, reminiscent of the New Orleans "barrelhouses" where they poured liquor from barrels, is strictly a weekend stop. Its usual attraction, the Dukes of Dixie, often described as a "great big bundle of noise", offer the Chicago type of jam session in a room filled with plenty of smoke and customers trying to prove they are not freshmen...
Seymour E. Harris '20, Chairman of the Department of Economics, however, called the industry's moonshine propaganda "bunk" and said that the liquor business is flourishing...
Harris, however, called "ridiculous" the assertion that half of all liquor consumed in this country is illicit. If any taxes should be lowered, he said, they should not be liquor taxes. The present rate is "not excessive...