Word: liquoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sign in the Liquor & Tobacco Shop in Moscow [News in Pictures - Oct. IQ] also reads Priem posudy proisvoditsa vo dvore, which, freely translated, means that the "empties are picked up in the backyard...
...People's Home-as Swedes describe their welfare state-even drinking is government-controlled. Before a citizen may buy a bottle of liquor, he must first be investigated by the Royal Control Board. He may then get a liquor passbook entitling him, according to age and income, to from one to three quarts of hard liquor monthly. If he proves boisterous on his allotment, the vigilant board may reduce his quota, or even lift his book. An unmarried female is usually allowed only one quart of liquor every three months, and loses this ration when she marries...
...practice, for about 30 years, of hiring restaurant-haunting alcohol spies. A Swede who dined out never knew whether his innocent-appearing neighbor at the next table might be checking on his drinking. By law, the restaurant could serve a woman precisely 5 centiliters (1.7 oz.) of hard liquor, or a man 7.5 centiliters, up to 3 p.m.. and double that amount after. If a friendly waiter brought the drinker an outsize tot. the snooper would not say a word, but at home that night would send off a report signed with his code number. A few days later...
...Princeton Borough Judge, Paul Cheesebro is head master of the Hunt School, which is near Princeton University. One day about a year and a half ago, several Hunt students showed up drunk after an evening in town. Immediately the Judge began a campaign to end the sale of liquor to minors, and he was very good at it. As a result of police raids which closed one tavern and scared the managers of all the others, it is quite difficult to get a drink in Princeton without at least 21 years of experience...
...supposedly barren nature of his life. At any rate, it is usually not until upperclass years that the Princeton first debates the merit of Charlie over Ascetic. When he does rebel, however, it seems to be with the energy of a closely-caged tiger. He wants his liquor, his car, and his Sex After Seven, and no assurances from the deans will convince him that abstinence is the best policy...