Word: liquoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was a bitter, boisterous, grotesquely misshapen mite of a man. He spent the best of his 37 years pattering up & down the steep streets of Montmartre, tippling in its gayest bistros and teetering on the edge of artistic fame. Half a century ago, liquor laid him by the heels. Last week, some of the work he managed between benders was on exhibition at two Paris galleries; a fictional biography of him, Moulin Rouge, was on U.S. bestseller lists; and the Baltimore Museum of Art had just staged a comprehensive show of his posters. Keeping step with...
...dresses. ¶ A new decree of Moscow's city fathers warned parents of all Bolshevik bobby-soxers, on pain of a $50 fine, to keep their children off the streets after 10 p.m in winter, 11 p.m. in summer. The decree forbade shopkeepers to sell the youngsters liquor or tobacco, and ordered the kids themselves to quit skating in the streets, to stop hitching rides on the outside of buses and streetcars, and to go only to movies listed officially as "suitable for children...
...parts ... At the Lido Club there is a gambling room with a bar . . ." Last week, only three days after Bob Collins' expose, Clayton County's grand jury called him and his "buddies" to testify, indicted eight operators of the Lido and the Hunt for gambling and selling liquor illegally. Said the Atlanta Constitution, sister paper of the Journal: "We hope that yesterday's indictments are but a first step in a wholesale cleanup . . . A good start has already been made...
Then Chesty Puller caught a plane, flew to his home & family in Saluda, Va. His salty remarks had sent the Pentagon into a close-mouthed swivet, had moved the W.C.T.U. to complain that liquor could leave troops "fuddleduddied." By the time he reached home, Chesty had pulled his chest in, had no more...
...keeping prices too low landed the Schwegmanns in court. They refused to sign a fair-trade agreement with Seagram and Calvert distillers, and sold their liquor at cut rates, despite Louisiana's fair-trade law that made such price-cutting illegal. Last week, after three years of battling right up to the U.S. Supreme Court, John Schwegmann triumphantly hung a sign in the middle of his supermarket...