Word: liquorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ideal citizen," reported the New York Times correspondent, diplomatically introducing Jumbo's rare philosophy and some of his "twinkling humor." Huge chested, hard as nails physically, Jumbo is fond of hunting, fishing, boxing. "Liquor isn't made to drink," he has said. "It's made to sell." No one has ever seen him down a glass of intoxicant. In the Jungle, Jumbo has taught the survival of the fittest. "If a man walks down the street with $100 in his pocket and some one knocks him over the head and takes it, that's his fault...
Cold-blooded murderer Ignatz Potz killed a Waukegan, Ill., motor-cycle policeman to avoid arrest for running liquor. He was condemned to death. In 1922, Governor Len Small of Illinois commuted the death penalty to life imprisonment; last week he granted a parole to Potz, effective in 1930. Aside from the question of the legality of a double commutation, aside from the reason for the date 1930, aside from the friendly relations of Potz with Len Small politics, thousands of decent Illinoisans were vastly irritated because this was merely the latest of many criminals to receive favor from a Governor...
Testimony by Lincoln C. Andrews, stern little nemesis of the bootleggers, accompanied the bill reported to the House last week by the Appropriations Committee. Mr. Andrews told what Christmas present he wanted to give the country. He proposed a triple-barrelled attack on real beer and hard liquor which would cost only three millions more than the 28 million dollar appropriation already scheduled. Three new headquarters squads would be formed: 1) 51 well-paid "undercover" agents to work under the 24 district administrators gathering evidence on lax city and state officials that will make it too expensive for them...
Often Mr. King has carried on with a majority of one vote. Last week Conservative charges of U. S. liquor graft in the Canadian customs service resulted in the resignation of the King Government after defeat in the House by an opposition surplus of one ballot...
...Temperance" Fisher, "only female wholesale liquor dealer in England," purveyoress of kümmel to the House of Lords, electrified Tory topers last week by announcing that she now receives periodic shipments of Soviet vodka...