Word: liquorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lever of logic with which Senator Borah may be able to pry the political lid off a subject in which citizens are actually interested. It contains three questions of a political nature (party plank, law enforcement, modification by states) and a fourth question aimed directly at the Candidates' liquor views. It was upon this fourth question that Candidate Willis, a boom-booming champion of the Anti-Saloon League, was expected to become magnificently resonant...
BROADWAY-The low down on the liquor industry, soft shoe dancing, cold hearted crime (TIME, Sept...
...Irish Free State sped hurriedly last week on his brief U. S. tour (TIME Jan. 16 and 23). Cheered and harkened to by Irish folk in Manhattan and Chicago, he was afterwards received at Washington by President Coolidge. Throughout the week he popped sayings, some humorous, some sage. "The liquor situation in Ireland is fine. We produce the best whiskey in the world. None other can compare with...
...even, let alone a roulette wheel or a faro game. I guess Mike Hughes* won't need his 3,000 extra cops, after all. "Public service is my motto. Ninety-nine percent of the people in Chicago drink and gamble. I've tried to serve them decent liquor and square games. But I'm not appreciated. It's no use. "I've got some property in St. Petersburg I want to sell. It's warm there, but not too warm. . . . "My wife and my mother hear so much about what a terrible criminal...
...spent all his money immediately after a fight; chiefly on liquor. Sometimes he committed petty crimes and begged the judge in court to send him up for 30 days in order that enforced abstinence might prepare him at least partially for his next encounter. Again and again he went drunk to the ring; and again and again just failed to crush great champions. In 1897 he made the final botch that removed him from serious consideration in the ring. Matched against one Tommy Tracy in St. Louis, he escaped to a saloon. Hours afterward his backers found him; shoved...