Word: liquoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mohammedan Koran sternly forbids the use of alcoholic beverages, but through the centuries, Moslem Iran drank freely and happily of the fermented grape, and produced a bibulous poet, Omar Khayyam. Last week, in Omar Khayyam's homeland, the Majlis turned on liquor as though it were the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. itself, voted for prohibition...
...judgment, I guess, where you hurt feelings unwittingly and people you love get mad at you. I undertook to kid [Baruch] a little and wound up crouched 'way back in his personal doghouse. I thought it exceedingly funny that somebody had snuck onto his properties . . . and started a liquor still ... I guess there are times when your sense of humor gets so keen that you can fall down and stab yourself on it... My boss man has spent the last 30 years . . . hollering that subtlety is not a commodity to practice in newspapers ... I think I may have...
Married. Lewis S. (for Samuel) Rosenstiel, 60, Cincinnati-born liquor baron, founder and president of Schenley, who once embarked on an unsuccessful campaign to teach 5,000 parrots to say "Drink Old Quaker" and install them in bars; and Louise Johnson Stark, 53, his first cousin, a surgeon's widow; he for the third time, she for the second; in Atlanta...
...living relative, who needs the inheritance for some revolutionary movement in France. While captivating Caron persuades the dying old man to write another will, her cohort Cotten deals with the evil contenders for the money--the housekeeper (Barbara Stanwyck), and a sinister side-whiskered butler. Between drinking quantities of liquor (fourteen glasses in all) and trying to break through Stanwyck's overbearing hostility, Cotten manages to appear a humanitarian martyr...
...Night Watch. In Chicago, someone broke into Charles Racanelli's tavern, took $300 in cash, $1,000 worth of liquor and his 145-lb. great Dane watchdog...