Word: liquorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Labor party and the National League are, perhaps, in worst shape. It was reported that the Laborites were at their wits' end to obtain enough cash to put up a strong fight, while the Nationalists, under Captain William A. Redmond, have so shocked the liquor interests, their main supporters, by aiding the Republicans and Laborites, in the Dail in the attempt to defeat the Cosgrave Government, that they are all but discredited...
...seizing, singlehanded, the 18-man crew and $500,000 liquor cargo of the S. S. Grey Point, British rum boat, one night last month in New York Harbor, Charles L. Duke, temporary ensign in the U. S. coast guard, was last week commissioned a lieutenant, junior grade, by firm strokes of the presidential...
Louisiana Bundles. "You have no right whatever to stop a person on the street and ask him what he has in a bundle, even though the contents of that bundle take the shape of a bottle. It might be a bottle of something other than liquor," said Judge Louis H. Burns of the U. S. District Court in New Orleans, to the Prohibition agent who arrested one John Masera. When Mr. Masera was accosted on the street by the Prohibition agent, he had quickly smashed his bottle of liquor on the pavement. Judge Burns dropped the charges against Mr. Masero...
Case No. 1: "When three of my sons were at Death's door and our physician prescribed a pint of medicinal whiskey, I did what my father would do: I broke the law; I went out and obtained the liquor...
Twelve Miles Out (John Gilbert, Ernest Torrence, Joan Crawford). A fine pair of illicit international traffickers are John Gilbert and Ernest Torrence. In Europe they smuggle firearms and diamonds. In the U. S. they are liquor barons. Being rivals in business, in facial attraction, in drinking capacity, they love to cause each other physical and financial embarrassment. The final episode finds Mr. Gilbert piloting his rumrunner off the coast of Long Island, with a charming society girl (Joan Crawford) on board against her will. Out of the night comes Mr. Torrence, with his rough-and-rum-necks, to capture...