Word: liquoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Levy has deduced Shaw's outlook from his opinions, in a fair and critical way. Where necessary, he acknowledges the non-judicial prejudices that helped Shaw establish a doctrine (except in the liquor-licensing cases, where he curiously fails to consider whether Shaw's readiness to uphold the State's "police power" might have proceeded from the Chief Justice's own prohibitionist leaning...
...high price of Cambridge liquor or the low level of undergraduate living. It may be the sad souls of the war babies or the hard hearts of Radcliffe girls. But whatever the cause, the Lampoon has gone and done it again...
...cunning bun, dignity coolly intact. Hardly anyone cared; the band blasted out with Hold That Tiger, and for hours that tiger was really loose; jitterbugging, rock 'n' rolling, the crowd poured it on. At length, in the early hours of the morning, the party and the liquor began to subside. Tired, rumpled and glassy-eyed, the guests found their way to the door. Last to leave: Senator Russ Long, his face glowing. Gazing around the room as waiters scooped up masses of cigarette butts, glasses and bottles, the boss of the Mardi Gras said: "Wonderful time, wonderful party...
...holders and society folk trooped into the annual Mardi Gras thrown by the Louisiana State Society and captained by Louisiana's Senator Russell Long. They little expected the zip and zeal with which ebullient Russ Long enveloped them-particularly since he had invited them to bring their own liquor. But as they crowded around 96 tables under a ceiling billowing in balloons and confetti, the din raced into high decibels...
Bootleggers reap from 200% to 300% on their investment, have bombed judges' homes, killed hostile liquor-law enforcement agents, machine-gunned rivals. One ex-convict named by Mathis supplies a liquor empire in dry counties from nine state-licensed liquor stores in wet areas. In Lubbock, Texas' biggest dry city (pop. 150,000), more than 4,000 bootleggers ply a $15 million annual trade, openly advertise their wares with such slogans as "We Can Satisfy Your Every Need" (the satisfaction costs up to $15 a fifth...