Word: liquorized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Michigan taxes domestic wines 4? a gallon, out-of-state wine 50?. Many other States war on each other with preferential taxes on liquor, beer, wine...
...giving Congress sole power to levy tariffs and otherwise regulate commerce between the States, the Founding Fathers thought to insure free trade within the U. S. and prevent in future the economic horrors of the Revolutionary Confederation. But modern States have the express power to restrict liquor imports (granted by the 21st Amendment, on the mistaken assumption that only dry States would use it), to tax liquor for revenue, police their own citizens and commerce for the public good. In self-defense, in response to pressure-groups, and, most of all, in blind efforts to combat Depression, the States have...
Main breeders of U. S. harlotry (and main subject of Designs in Scarlet) are Dine & Dance joints, liquor, tourist camps, obscenity peddlers. Author Cooper does not, however, neglect organized brothels nor the many ramifications of his subject-camp followers of the WPA, sex degeneracy, and worse. As in his previous crime writings (Here's To Crime, Ten Thousand Public Enemies), he is a powerful and even petrifying publicist. But he is, as ever, a highly confusing sociologist. Formerly Author Cooper denounced Prohibition as a main root of U. S. crime. But U. S. prostitution, which he considers worse than...
...Airplanes showered Abdin Palace with rosettes in Egyptian and Iranian colors. Sudan racing camels and Arab stallions crowded the capital's streets. At a reception, each guest received a jewel-encrusted gold box of bonbons (value: $1,000). At night there was a huge banquet at which no liquor flowed (Moslems are dry). The Nile shimmered with reflections of colored fireworks. Later, at another reception for Egyptian royalty and nobles, Fawziya herself shimmered-in bracelets, necklaces and pendants which the Crown Prince had given her (estimated value...
...restaurants selling liquor, the average wage in the Square is $8, with some places paying less than this amount. In Boston, girls not infrequently work for nothing in such establishments and live exclusively on tips...