Word: liquorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only one respect are the two productions absolutely equal that is in the number of bootleggers in each production. The members of the play committee were particularly careful to explain that these unconstitutional characters had nothing to do with liquor. But some one had to step through sliding panels to steal the family silverware, and so the authors decided that it might just as well be bootleggers...
Said Governor Pinchot, who has Presidential aspirations: " The thing that has protected the liquor criminal is politics. . . . The Federal Enforcement Service . . . will never be worth its salt until it is taken wholly out of politics. . . The President should take personal charge. Not only has the political hamstringing of the Federal Enforcement Service had its seat in Washington, but it is notorious that disobedience of the Eighteenth Amendment has been flagrant in the Capital City...
Sued for divorce. Jose Baccardi, " Cuban rum king," by Senora Martha Durand Baccardi, in Manhattan. She charged nonsupport, and added that he " did nothing but drink . . . his own liquor. . . . When he was tired of that he would go to sleep...
Secretary Hughes suggested that, if a treaty were made for twelve-mile search and seizure, it should also include a provision that foreign ships might come into our territorial waters with liquor under seal. The British reply, while unsympathetic to extension of the three-mile limit, did not preclude further negotiation. It also promised that the proposal would be considered at the Imperial Conference, which opens in London on Oct. 1 (see page...
...cannot under the Federal law, and you cannot under the University law, bring intoxicating liquors into any building of the University. Whatever you may think of the Eighteenth Amendment or of the moderate use of liquor, this rule holds." Such, according to reports was President Angell's dictum to Yale Freshmen at his reception for the incoming class at New Haven. Violation of this rule, the made perfectly clear would bring about instant dismission...