Word: liquoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seraglio. The Victorian era, according to Pearl, was "an age when prostitution was widespread and flagrant; when many London streets were like Oriental bazaars of flesh; when the luxurious West End nighthouses dispensed love and liquor till dawn; when fashionable whores . . . rode with duchesses in Rotten Row, and eminent Victorians negotiated for the tenancy of their beds; when a pretty new suburb arose at St. John's Wood as a seraglio for mistresses and harlots." In the rising tide of Victorian morality, one female Londoner in every 16 became a whore; there were 6,000 brothels and about...
Order of Bottle. In Seattle, Zumie Davis was fined $200 for illegally selling liquor, despite his explanation that the 41 fifths of whisky and 24 pints of wine found in his bedroom were to be used only in case of an A-bomb attack...
...Authorized a $180 million appropriation for the District of Columbia and sent it on to the Senate. Next day the House voted to increase D.C. taxes by nearly $10 million, including a 5?-per-fifth increase (from $1 to $1.25 per gallon) in liquor for one of the nation's wettest cities...
BUSINESS TAX CUTS, like income tax reductions, are out for 1956. After Treasury Secretary George Humphrey testified that the U.S. will need another $1 billion this year, the Senate Finance Committee voted to block the scheduled $3.2 billion cut in excise (liquor, cars, etc.) and corporate taxes...
...Paterson, N.J., Matti Raivio was found guilty of stealing $193 from a liquor store despite his explanation to the court: "As a man trained as a saboteur and a spy, I would not commit such a childish type of crime...