Word: liquorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pocket the U. S. citizenry pays for Prohibition, out of another for bootleg liquor. Next year the enforcement funds will be some 37 millions-$13,500,000 for the Prohibition Bureau, $14,686,798 for the Coast Guard, $9,000,000 for the Department of Justice. The House passed on the first two items last week...
According to Mrs. Willebrandt, the Canadian traffic "continues to be unsolved." It is on that front that the Prohibiters will work hardest next year. A step projected is to revise the U. S.-Canadian anti-smuggling treaty, which now provides only that Canada shall advise the U. S. of liquor clearances from her ports. Perhaps Canada will be induced to declare it illegal for her liquor-men to sell to U. S. customers...
...Herter regained her smile. Mr. Herter was not so cheerful, especially when the inspectors crashed his four bottles of choice liquor and told him that he would have to pay a big bill-$12,-919.25 in duties & fines-to recover all his property. William Hanford ("Big Bill") Edwards, onetime Collector of the Internal revenue, left the pier in a thoughtful mood, perhaps reflecting that other friends of his returning from Europe with goods to smuggle will not soon welcome his large and eloquent presence to meet them on the dock...
...Cambridge, Mass., while out for a drive last week, one Harold Lloyd was arrested for 1) operating under the influence of liquor; 2) possessing no registration; 3) possessing no license; 4) misappropriating an automobile; 5) driving recklessly; 6) being drunk; 7) failing to report an accident; 8) stealing an automobile. Judged guilty on the first six counts, he was imprisoned for 30 days and subjected to fines totalling...
...Gruff soldier with heart of gold and will of iron, brilliant in strategy, steadfast in courage-nothing dandified in his uniform, nothing lily-livered in his perpetual cigar, nothing watered about his liquor-such is, and will be, the popular impression of victorious U. S. Grant, modern biographers to the contrary...