Word: liquorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...City that Never Sleeps. This is a warning to modern mothers not to become bootleggers for the sake of the family income. The mother involved, widow of a saloon keeper, kept selling liquor even after 1919 to give her daughter the "advantages." Among the advantages in her Park Avenue existence the daughter found cocktails and a fortune hunter. When the latter began shooting at the police in the mother's downtown cabaret, the girl recalled the tableau long ago when her father was murdered in the old saloon. She recognized her mother and returned to her childhood sweetheart...
However, for some time the State Department, by and with the advice of the Department of Justice, has been refusing through its consuls to certify invoices for liquor shipments to the Islands. Liquor was shipped anyhow-and a small fine paid at the port of debarkation. In June of last year, the State Department ordered its consuls to refuse bills of health to vessels leaving for the Philippines with liquor cargoes...
...over this question that the disagreement arose. A consul at Hongkong refused a bill of health to a liquor-bearing ship. Governor General Wood protested, and finally asked the War Department to bid the State Department modify its instructions to consuls, inasmuch as the Volstead Act did not apply to the Philippines. The State Department refused on the ground that its instructions were based on the Constitution...
...agents captured a liquor launch coming in from "Rum Row." Its skipper had an unstamped letter from a member of one of the rum-ship's crew. It read in part...
...From this date on dismissal without opportunity for appeal will be the penalty imposed on any man found to have the odor of beer, wine or other liquor on his breath, or to have intoxicants on his person or in his house...