Word: liquored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dresses up in knee breeches and sings them for visitors to Virginia's reconstructed colonial Williamsburg. Vrooman, and the cronies who sing catches with him, perform here with a formality and finish more suitable for a concert hall than a tavern, in spite of lyrics like "From good liquor ne'er shrink...
Wolff's cooperation was well rewarded. Though he was technically under arrest, his impressed captors gave him the run of Gmunden, allowed him to live with his beautiful blonde wife and daughters, kept him well supplied with liquor, cigarettes and food from the PX -and even brought in his private yacht for pleasure cruises on Lake Gmund. At Nürnberg, Wolff sat out the trials as a prosecution witness, and in 1949 he was released...
...Echols, local Negro voter registration worker, arrested for perjury, tried, and sentenced. Now awaiting transfer to Parchman State Farm. Had filled out a voter registration form last month and stated in the form that he had never committed a crime. A year ago, however, was arrested for possession of liquor. Echols said he didn't know that was a crime. Lawyers are work on the case...
MEMBERS OF THE PRESS CORPS who accompany the President wherever he goes live in a world all their own. They know each other well and speak their own peculiar abbreviations and jargon. As soon as the press plane takes off liquor flows freely from the substantial supply aboard at all times. When the plane touches down at each stop, the members of the press applaud gently in what has become almost a folk custom...
...Darien was stunned to realize that adults could be charged with a crime for serving liquor in their own homes. "A man's home is his castle, isn't it?" was the frequent plaint. Other parents in other areas might be equally surprised to learn that they were lawbreakers too. In many states, the law can be interpreted to forbid any person to serve liquor to an adolescent, whether in public or private. In other states, adults can be held culpable for such an amiable drawing-room practice on the grounds that they have contributed "to the delinquency...