Word: liquorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...principles of the Quebec plan, I believe, are sound. The plan, as a result of the Government taking over the sale exclusively of all alcoholic beverages and forbidding the consumption of those beverages upon the premises where sold, does away with the saloon and the private liquor traffic. Furthermore, the plan does not permit the establishment of a Government liquor store in any community which has voted that it does not want such a store...
...American missionaries had been establshed on the Islands, and although human sacrifice, polyandry, polygamy and the unspeakable punalua were disappearing and a prohibition law had been enacted, license and drunkenness were still rampant and, only five years before, French Naval officers had raped the laws of the kingdom, imported liquor, extorted money, introduced Roman Catholic priests. But the joyance of the Doles could not be extinguished by such considerations, for to them had been born a son christened Sanford Ballard Dole...
...Bratt, a practicing physician and an authority on social hygiene, secured the establishment of a liquor monopoly financed by private capital, empowered to dispense all alcoholic fluids except light beers, and permitted to dispose of such fluids only under a permit system based upon the status of each purchaser-the head of a family to be sold not more than a gallon of "hard liquors" a month, single women not more than a gallon a year, restaurants an amount proportionate to their proven sales of food. To the Swede who dines in restaurants there may be brought unlimited "hard liquors...
...people, the "Bratt system" has occasioned little friction, has reduced the consumption of alcohol 50% in such cities as Stockholm, and appears to ration out alcohol in just sufficient quantities to make smuggling unprofitable. This "golden mean" of Swedish "regulation" contrasts sharply with Norwegian "prohibition" of all liquors of more than 45% alcoholic content. In Norway, though wines and beers are at everyone's disposal, the smuggling in of hard liquor by German speedboats* has become an industry...
...Adroitly fitted with a device by which the entire liquor cargo can be ejected into the sea through an under water trap door in the stern, if a dry enforcement cutter is sighted...