Word: liquorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...warehouses in which 15,000,000 gallons of liquor are stored. The liquor is private property held for legal sale as medicine. In bonded storage the U. S. stands stern guard over it, with agents to gauge its quantity, to test its quality, to control its withdrawal for drug-store purpose. Last week its was revealed in Chicago that some 50,000 gallons of such closely-guarded liquor had somehow gotten out of government bondage. It was the biggest "escape" of its kind in the history of Prohibition...
...Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes, after four years in the seclusion of the U. S. Vice-Presidency, continued to create publicity for Disarmament and himself. ¶ He talked some more about why he will serve no alcoholics in his London embassy: "I never made it a practice to serve liquor in my home in the States, and see no reason to change now." Other U. S. diplomats abroad wondered what all the excitement was about. Alcoholics are never served in the American Embassy at Oslo or Copenhagen, while most of the U. S. diplomats in the Balkans are teetotalers...
...geeva pull? Little Johnny Bull! What a naughty little pup To eat the paper profits up. Contributor Funk was obviously a man of substance, conscious of the stockmarket. His subsequent contributions would have revealed him, to any between-lines-reader, as: a fatalist; a hedonist conscious of women, tobacco, liquor; a bad golfer; a married man whose thoughts sometimes stray afield; a middle-aged married man whose thoughts always return homeward. Wilfred J. Funk dutifully summed himself up, in fact, in his opus for May 9 entitled "Symptoms," as follows: SYMPTOMS I am a sort of a cynical cuss, Mellow...
...Border. On the claim that 85% of Canadian liquor entering the U. S. is run across the Detroit River, Assistant- Secretary of the Treasury Lowman tightened his blockade along that mile-wide stream until it fairly bristled with Dry and Wet armament. Pleasure craft traversed it at their own peril. The roughest, tough- est gangster element alone stayed in the rum racket to battle...
...Canada had her own troubles in this liquor war. To Ontario officials came Canadian pleasure-boat owners with complaints of being fired upon on the Detroit River by U. S. customs men. One complainant, no rumrunner, exhibited a boat riddled with bullets...