Word: liquorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Significance. Interest promptly centered upon whether the new regime would attempt to enact strong arm prohibition in place of the highly successful "Stockholm system" of liquor control inaugurated in 1916 by Dr. Ivan Bratt, which was extended throughout Sweden in 1919 as the "Bratt system...
...believe the liquor traffic to be a curse to the human family...
...noteworthy that this debate proceeds upon a rather exaggerated assumption of the seriousness of the situation For the fictious opponent of the Retired Humorist, namely, Mr. Liberal Broad, does not, in this set debate, attempt to repute the allegation that college comics have "but two sources of inspiration, bootleg liquor and an unbridled sex motive". Nor does he object to the pernicious use on the adjective "freuent," applied to suppression by postal officials. He does not even suggest that postal officials are poor judges. Evidently Mr. Liberal Broad, does no., is a man of straw, capable only of trite generalization...
Legal attempts to reduce human affairs to the common denominator of justice are commendable in principle but occasionally laughable in practice. In a neighboring state, the Attorney Ceneral prosecuting a liquor case rhetorically asks, "Who is stronger, the bootleg ring or the state of Rhode Island?" only to have the jury return a verdict of not guilty. And to pitch the question on a more adventurous plane, even now a governmental quibble arises concerning payment of duty on pictures taken by Byrd at the North Pole. Thus does the energy and initiative of aerial explorers whittle down...
...only as an administrative body and to hear reports. This time they heard that Bishop Anton Bast of Denmark could not join them because pardon or reprieve from his prison was refused (TIME, March 29) ; that reports of Mexi can religious persecution were false; that England lags in restricting liquor sales in India. The conference was calm...