Word: liquorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...State Department had no sooner smoothed over one international liquor problem last week, than it found itself confronted with another, more serious...
Temporary seizure of diplomatic liquor en route from Baltimore to the Siamese legation had created an Incident that put the foreign corps in Washington on edge (TIME, March 25). Anxious to quiet ambassadorial nerves, the State Department obtained from the Treasury Department a red-taped but definite ruling that embassy liquor could be transported by private U.S. trucks and drivers without Federal molestation, provided an accredited diplomat was actually aboard the vehicle...
...Alone's, skipper, Captain John T. Randell, 49, a Canadian, told his story in New Orleans. Loaded with 2,800 cases of "assorted liquor," his schooner, he said, was "anchored 14½ to 15 miles offshore" when approached by the Walcott. He did not heave to because he did not think the U.S. had jurisdiction. His ship, he figured, went down 225 miles offshore in a heavy sea under 120 U.S. shots. The drowned negro, one Leon Mainjoy, was a French citizen...
Michigan last week shuffled its criminal code and gave 'leggers a new deal. The State repealed its "life-for-a-pint" law which sent fourth-offending liquor dispensers away for all time. From Michigan's habitual criminal act were excepted 120 minor felonies, including the wearing of a lodge pin without authority. As a compensation to the Anti-Saloon League, the State Legislature decreed that every prohibition violator must go to jail for from 50 days to four years, and pay a fine...
...shaking results. Since then, the snuffling bull has been permitted to spend his years beneath the Florida sun; but this spring it was decreed that Albert should journey northward. The unwell ungulate journeyed. Swiftly he contracted pneumonia. And, despite depth bombs charged with quinine, and gallons of legally prescribed liquor, he died. Notable is the fact that he died most opportunely; in time to burst into print just before the circus's splendiferous opening in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Thus did Albert serve his owners even in death...