Word: liquoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...virtually the only Democrat to win state office in 1956. In his inaugural address he hit the G.O.P.-controlled legislature with carefully drawn proposals, including a hint that was bound to stir up the session: he would like a re-study of dry-inclined Iowa's stringent liquor regulations (package sales only...
...austere old warrior was distressed at the stories of his sons' excesses. He had one publicly flogged for a drunken brawl. "Who would have thought even a few years ago that I should live to see liquor and drugs coming into Riyadh, when we used to condemn even the use of tobacco," he cried. "If it were in my power to choose, I would have doomsday now." When another prince shot and killed the British vice consul in Jiddah because he refused to hand over a visiting English girl, the Old Lion offered the widow...
...services must be conducted surreptitiously by a priest who flies in from Bahrein and gives his profession as "teacher." Both Aramco and the U.S. military advisory groups are forbidden to have Jewish employees, and an American who receives a letter with an Israeli postmark is deported. The ban on liquor is partly circumvented by the construction of home stills in many a ranch house, and by black-marketing which makes Scotch available in Jiddah at $40 a bottle. "We have only one thing in common," said one Aramco employee dispassionately. "They have oil, and we want...
...Manhattan meeting of liquor dealers, Massachusetts' boyish (39) Democratic Senator Jack Kennedy rose to help hail Charles Berns, the co-founding "Charlie" of Manhattan's famed "21" restaurant (see BUSINESS) and guest of honor as a benefactor of Massachusetts' decade-old Brandeis University. Getting a glowing introduction, Jack Kennedy seemed startled, then smiled and disclosed some spirits in his ancestral tree: "My grandfather had a saloon and my father was in the liquor business, and I don't usually get such a warm reception from people to whom my father sold something...
...Whiz. In Philadelphia, after a state liquor-control agent testified that Stripteuse Julie Gibson concluded her "Dance of the Bashful Bride" wearing only a G string, Julie assured the judge that she had never seen or heard of such a garment and had ended her undulations modestly draped in mesh panties, declared with indignation: "I have never worn anything less...