Word: liquorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Contempt. Three Washington Times newsmen ? Gorman M. Hendricks, Linton Burkette, Jack Nevin Jr. ? visited 49 capital speakeasies and bought drinks. They then contributed their experiences, with addresses and names deleted, to an exposé of Washington liquor conditions. Quickly summoned before the Grand Jury, they were asked to supply names, addresses, dates ? the specification for legal complaints. These they declined to give, on the ground that their admission to the speakeasies was on a confidential basis, that they were not dry agents, that to answer the Grand Jury's questions would violate their professional ethics...
Quickly followed the identification of Cassidy as the "Man in the Green Hat"? 'legger who long has specialized in trade around the Capitol. Three years ago he was going his rounds in the House Office Building when his liquor-laden brief case fell to the stone floor. Amid fumes of alcohol, he fled to the street. His only identification then was his bright green hat. When arrested last week he wore a hat of sober grey...
...Whether liquor advertisements in the Harvard "Crimson" and "Lampoon" are construed to have been print in jest or not is a matter for the officials there to decide. The case does, however, indicate that the student attitude toward prohibition is not one of deep respect, such as the Constitution of the United States ordinarily commands...
...jokes and nothing more but the stimulus that prompted them was considerably deeper than these externals show. The law went into effect ten years ago, when the students of average college ago today were too young to appreciate its full meaning. Yet, the theory that those who never drank liquor could be educated not to want it has apparently been shattered, either because the education on this subject has been none too good or because the taste for liquor cannot be destroyed...
...months' imprisonment, was later pardoned by onetime (1925-28) Governor Ed Jackson. In 1929 he was resentenced, served 53 days at the penal farm. Happy was he when, in 1925, the legislature passed a law forbidding the display of flasks and cocktail shakers by merchants, the reproduction of liquor labels in newspapers, medicinal prescription of whiskey. Last month it was dis-covered that he was medicinally drinking a brew which contained 23% alcohol, which he instantly forswore...