Word: liquorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...room laughing and shouting. "Here, sport!" he cried, "Drink this! It'll make a man of you!" I drank it. It was whiskey and I rather imagine he had stolen it from some other student. It was the first time I the had ever tasted an strong evening liquor but it was not my last. Many an evening --- and myself caroused, either in my little room or in the Dean's office (to which he had the keys) on the drinking ground floor...
Ohio. The big issue was a referendum on a bill which would have reestablished "kangaroo courts" (justices of the peace who share in the fines they impose for liquor law violation).*The Anti-Saloon League pressed the bill as a Wet & Dry issue. The bill was defeated by some 300,000 votes. ... In Cleveland it was voted not to revert to mayoralty form of government, to retain the city manager plan, of which Cleveland is the most populous exponent...
...time coachesf filled the arena now and then, with "coaching parties" riding on their roofs. William H. Vanderbilt tooled one of them. Another exhibitor at the show was J. G. Gerardi, of Scranton, Pa., for whom a kind-hearted judge had postponed a 30 day sentence for violation of liquor laws that he might show his animal, Halerood...
...more responsible for its enactment than many millions who had voted for it, and much less responsible that those who had led in the agitation; and, in proposing the measure, he was only echoing the sentiments of his constituents. These considerations, however, avail nothing with those who, having found liquor in the Mecca of the dry, feel that to telephone Mr. Volstead would be the cream of the jest. He must by now have tested the meaning of the poet who mentioned the repose of those who sink to rest by all their country's wishes blessed; and among...
...Louis Israel Dublin, of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. had said: "Beginning with 1920 there has been a continuous and marked rise in the number of deaths resulting from the use of alcohol. . . . The quality of liquor used throughout the country is sufficiently bad to make up for the smaller quantity consumed. . . . We may summarize our findings as follows: that the Prohibition period is characterized by sharply declining mortality rates among children and adolescents of both sexes, and that this decline is continued over a number of additional age periods among women. The improvement is retarded among young male adults...