Word: liquorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this era. Stills, he said, were to be found, in at least one out of every five homes. Parents got drunk in the presence of their children. Wives who tended the stills ended by running away with the "star-boarder." Young girls demanded that their boy friends provide liquor on auto parties, so that immorality at tender ages was prevalent. Once the priest heard a child of three pleading, "Mamma, moonshine...
Canadians, two, concluded the wet evidence, Sir William Stavert of Quebec and Francis W. Russell of Winnipeg. They exulted over the complete success of government control and sale of liquor...
...rebuttal by the appearance of representatives from scores of organizations (chiefly of women) with long names, representing scores of thousands of members. Famed women such as Commander Evangeline Booth sent personal proxies. "We stand," said Mrs. Henry Peabody, "for the strongest thing in enforcement and the weakest thing in liquor...
...What rich American was named by Sir John Lavery as abstaining from liquor? (See POLITICAL NOTES...
...sentenced by Judge English to four months in jail paid Mr. Thomas $2,500. Soon Judge English vacated the sentence be cause jail might impair the bootlegger's health. Said Congressman Stobbs of Mass.: "$2,500 in my part of the country is a fairly good fee in a liquor case." Furthermore, Attorney Thomas did not even appear in court...