Word: liquorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some time ago a British ship, the Marion L. Mosher, was caught by a coast guard cutter trying to land liquor on Long Island, the ship was chased and actual seizure took place outside the three-mile limit. Ambassador Geddes objected and the ship was released on a $20,000 bond, furnished by a surety company, that the Marion L. Mosher would land her cargo of liquor at St. John, New Brunswick. She landed at St. John, but without her cargo. The surety company refused to pay the bond or the ground that the original seizure of the vessel...
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, millionaire American draft evader (who escaped in 1920 from Governor's Island by plying his guards with liquor), shot dead one man and wounded another when they attempted to seize him in his apartment at a hotel in Eberbach, Baden, Germany. Out side the hotel, in an old U. S. army car, waited Lieutenant Griffith, U. S. Army, and "Prince" Gargarin, a Russian. After the shooting a crowd menaced the two in the car, who promptly started for Heidelberg and were arrested en route, charged with attempting to kidnap Bergdoll. Bergdoll went free of any homicidal...
Secrecy continued to cloak the progress of the negotiations by which Secretary Hughes is trying to secure treaties with foreign powers to allow their vessels to enter American ports with liquor under seal in exchange for the privilege of extending the three-mile limit to twelve miles for the search and seizure of rum-runners...
House of Lords. Lady Astor's bill prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquor to persons under 18 years of age passed its third reading without amendment. It now needs only the Royal Assent before it becomes...
Evelyn Nesbit, former wife of Harry K. Thaw: "I was arrested. They raided the El Prinkipo Café in ' Cabaret Row,' Atlantic City, where I sing and dance. They seized considerable liquor. They held Alfred Macdonald and me as alleged proprietors...