Word: liquoring
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...major and responsible countries, not related to you by blood or alliance, qualified to give precise information about you. 4) Are you suffering from any serious troubles? (Political? Mental? Epidemic?). 5) May I consider that during the course of the past twelve months none among you has drunk alcoholic liquor to excess? Oui? Non?" In case some might think him anti-American, Daninos explained: "I am nothing but a damned individualist who would not seek the tiniest louse on the head of the United States if they would not try to find one on mine...
...came in February, 1927, when 40 students were arrested after battling a vast assemblage of local policemen following a "Mid-Nite Smokers." One policeman told the court that some of the students had been taking their minds off the UT's performers by drinking "some of that awful modern liquor--stuff I wouldn't feed my own children...
Under the present system, which has been in operation only two years, students are allowed to have liquor in their rooms, but they cannot drink in public rooms, generally, and dances, specifically. Because of this, there is a general rush back to the rooms for the last drink before the 11 p.m. date deadline...
...television. The liquor stores reported the expected slump, less severe than some expected, but neverthless, still far below earlier weekends...
Smoking smuggled U.S. cigarettes is rapidly becoming as commonplace in Canada as was the drinking of smuggled Canadian liquor in the U.S. during Prohibition. Deeply resentful of the government's 182% cigarette tax, which has forced prices as high as 46? a pack, the average Canadian seems to feel no moral guilt whatever in buying the smuggled U.S. article at 15?-a-pack less...