Word: liquorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...game-birds tethered in squalid door-yards all over the island. On Sundays the national anthem is stilled. Those sacks you see the natives carrying along the white roads on Sunday morning contain the coxcomb choir. They are going to the cockpits, where a knife, a flask of bitter liquor, volleys of cheers and curses, the chink of coin, the spurt of dust and blood -not always fowl blood-spell life's zest for the brown-skinned jibaro (peasant). Porto Rican poets hymn the sport as the essence of manhood and beauty...
...absolutely against liquor because I do not feel it helps the human body. I am glad to tell you that I am past 50 and feel as well now as I did at 18. That comes from not drinking, not carousing, and getting a good night's rest...
...serve God you must train your mind as well as your soul. Liquor and some other things deprave the mind and soul...
Beneath the gunmen's disguises were found two U. S. Coast Guardsmen, assigned to watch for border rum-runners. They found no liquor in Motorist Hanson's car. Neither had there been liquor in the car of one J. F. Stearns, into which they had fired three bullets as it topped the Lewiston hill a quarter-hour earlier than Hanson...
...Louis T. McFadden, of branch-banking law fame, saw fit to fire it at Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, who is contesting his seat in Pennsylvania's 14th District. The meeting was in Canton, Pa., Mr. McFadden's home town, last fortnight. The Cantonese are not very particular about liquor and smoking, even for women, but Mrs. Pinchot is running Dry, like her militant husband who used to govern Pennsylvania (1923-27). Mrs. Pinchot is running as a thoroughgoing lady...