Word: liquored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...approved a compromise whereby officers and noncoms kept their own bottles in their club lockers. Last week, taking advantage of congressional permission granted two years ago in the Universal Military Training & Service Act, the Army finally decided to allow all officers' and NCOs' clubs to sell hard liquor over the bar. Though it admonished commanders to "encourage abstinence, enforce moderation and punish overindulgence," and forbade bar drinks for soldiers under 21, last week's directive promptly brought a protest from Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. "More than...
Wagnerian Soprano Helen Traubel, rising to the bait of $7,500, warmed up for a week's work at Chicago's Chez Paree, her debut in any such emporium of liquor and lowbrow music. "There will be no Wagner," she promised. "This will be nothing but fun . . ." Her big number: a take-off on Jimmy Durante and Eddie Jackson mangling that sweet old song Won't You Come Home, Bill Bailey...
Altered Appearance. Shirley Kremen, using an alias, had rented the lonely four-room hideout in June. A tidy housekeeper, she kept a plentiful supply of canned goods, liquor and beer on hand, and $2,000 in sugar-bowl money. When she was arrested, she had just washed a man's white sweater and spread it neatly on a towel to dry. The men stuck close to the cabin, avoided the neighbors, whiled away the time with TV and table tennis. Thompson and Steinberg had gone to some pains to alter their appearances. Thompson, who had gained about...
...Post, Chicago Daily News and Cincinnati Enquirer, ran the letter. Columnists picked it up, and several papers even ran editorials about it. A reporter from the Christian Science Monitor called, Little said, explained that the paper was amused by the letter, but "you know we can't mention liquor in the paper." Graciously, Little told him to take out the reference to Old Crow (the Monitor did, ran the letter in one edition). Readers were equally responsive. In Little's mail came three live crows and a crow whistle from a Pennsylvania editor, who suggested Little might...
...A.M.A. Journal that in addition to its other hazards, Antabuse (the drug to combat alcoholism, now officially renamed disulfiram) should not be given to alcoholics with heart trouble. Taken with a little alcohol, as it must be to bring on the reaction which makes patients swear off liquor, the drug puts a strain on any heart...