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Word: liquorous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

...never mistake for old whiskey. For a year these illegal extractions at Sibley Warehouse had been in progress, evidently, before their full extent was disclosed to Commissioner of Prohibition James M. Doran, who, last week in Washington, sat frowning at an 84-page report. At 'legger prices, the liquor theft, directly under the nose of U. S. agents, amounted to some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Out of Bondage | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...agents logically came under suspicion first. A Grand Jury was asked to fix the blame. Nor did the government consider the owners of the lost liquor, the holders of the warehouse certificates, altogether blameless. Many of them were supposed to be onetime saloon keepers who had not wholly lost interest in liquor sales...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Out of Bondage | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...other 26 liquor warehouses throughout the land were hastily checked by the U. S. agents, in search of similar escapes from bondage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Out of Bondage | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...liquor was found on the Harris farm. Raider Thomason had no search warrant to look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In Oklahoma | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...Liquor. "My ministers decided that the time has come to investigate the whole field of legislation relating to sale and supply of intoxicating liquor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Carrots & Commissions | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

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