Word: liquoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sequel to his drinking bouts, his stupefied little body might be seen carried home on someone's shoulder. His father, deeply ashamed and hopeless of reclaiming him, could only banish him to live as he would in a paddy godown outside the town. The boy brewed his own liquor there...
...beer and wine may be toned down, even prohibited (as liquor ads already are). House Commerce Committee formally censured beer-drinking scenes as "not in good taste," suggested beer and wine industries cancel all TV advertising, called on broadcasters to report by Jan. 1 on what they have done to dry up drinking scenes...
...Anglo-Stoic. Like his brothers, Ned was a dedicated ascetic. He never smoked, never touched liquor ("People are asses to drink such stuff"). Even of eating, he said: "To escape the humiliation of loading in food would bring one very near the angels." When Brother Frank was killed, Ned rebuked his parents for feeling the "need ... to go into mourning. I cannot see any cause at all- in any case to die for one's country is a sort of privilege." He even reproached his mother for expecting her sons to tell her how much they loved...
Vigilante. In St. Louis, police booked Willie Smith for burglary despite his plea that he had entered a liquor store after hours only to chase out two thieves...
...final matches were getting under way last week when one of the tournament directors blew a police whistle for quiet and rose to make an embarrassing but necessary announcement: "Any player having a bottle of liquor in his pocket or on the table will be barred from the tournament." (Tentative applause swept the room.) "Any player who is unpleasantly drunk, bottle or no bottle, will also be barred." (More applause.) "If anyone is intoxicated but pleasant, he can play. We're not bluenoses." (Cheers...