Word: liquorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Navy Department has cooperated with revenue cutters in scouting and capturing dope-schooners on the Pacific, but it has not generally taken official cognizance of liquor-transports...
Police Are Like Liquor Agents...
...several Assistant Secretaries of the Treasury-Mr. McKenzie Moss. But, until a year ago, it was assumed that the main responsibility lay with Mr. Haynes. Wide publicity was given to his "success." Then, suddenly, the publicity stopped, presumably because it could not be sustained against the evidences of liquor on every hand. Interest shifted from Mr. Haynes to the Treasury Department proper. Mr. Moss, who had other things to do besides enforcing prohibition, became swamped with work. Now he has been relieved by the transfer of the whole liquor question to General Andrews, whose chief care it will be. Does...
This attention to science took the form of trying the effect of stone on glass or spiritous liquor and water on man. The scientists called themselves "supper philosophers" and as the story relates, it sometimes happened that they pursued their investigation a little too far, and that occasionally the supper was rather too much for the philosopher. With the passing of eating as a ritual and philosophy as an avocation rustication, too, has passed...
...once counted up over 350 acquaintances, are total abstainers; of the remaining 25 per cent about half are moderate and about half heavy drinkers. Since I have been in college I have never been offered a drink. I have seen only two men under the influence of liquor in any dormitory...