Word: liquoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kept things quiet, and Galveston, which has a remarkable tolerance for slot machines, bars and bordellos, left them strictly to their own devices. Only the Texas Rangers tried to give them trouble. But the Maceos' biggest enterprise, the Balinese Room, is built at the end of a pier; liquor and gambling apparatus had a way of disappearing before the Rangers got in. When the coppers appeared, the band struck up The Eyes of Texas, and the head waiter strode up to give them a hearty, if overly triumphant welcome...
...Reaffirmed their stand against "the unprincipled and misleading advertising [of liquor] by press, radio and, more recently, by television...
...Take It Easy!" Huge and untidy in a rumpled brown suit, Wolfe reminded his companions of a "big, awkward bear." When the beer and liquor flowed, he was anything but bearish, but as the white Ford bounced down steep canyon roads he kept bawling to the driver, "Take it easy!" Crossing Montana towards the end of the trip he saw "suddenly-the tops of the great train lined with clusters of hoboes-a hundred of them-some sprawled out, sitting, others erect, some stretched out on their backs lazily inviting the luminous American weather . . . and the 'bos roll past...
...Boosts the tax on beer, gasoline (from 1½ ? to 2? a gallon), liquor, cigarettes (to 8? a package) and autos (from 7% to 10%), sets a 10% tax on the manufacturers' price of most appliances and 8% on auto parts...
...Honorable Gent. In a liquor-licensing debate, Lady Astor got A.P.'s dander up by referring to him as "the playboy of the drink world." Snapped he: "A regular course of narcotics would be extremely good for the noble lady and would make her less restive." As usual, she had the last word: "The noble lady will be restive in this House long after the honorable gent...