Word: liquorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...graphic record of a current event which is 1) unusual or 2) important. If a corporation president resigns his directorships to accept a job as bus boy, if a senator refuses to make a speech at a public dinner, if a revenue agent stops the sale of liquor ? that is news. Such news may be presented in as entertaining a fashion as possible. But there is another kind of news ? a narrative of events which have often occurred but must be recorded as a matter of form, with dignity and brevity. To this category belongs the item about...
...faintest metrical sensibilities. This tasty bit of verse contains no less than five various meters comprising trimeter, tetrameter and rentameter with iambs, and dactyls thrown in for good measure, and while thrown in for good measure, and while we cannot but approve the senti ment which suggests that the liquor customarily used at the christening of a ship might better be dedicated to beverage purposes, we feel bound to protest against any such modernist scheme of versification. The redeeming feature of this page is the excellent drawing by Mr. Codfish Cabot showing Lampy in the act of launching a ship...
...last getting the situation under control," said Mr. Connolly, "something we have been trying to accomplish ever since prohibition was supposed to come into force. Great difficulty has been encountered in stopping the sale of liquor outside of the Yard, but this arrest will prove a lesson to other bootleggers, and we can now proceed toward wiping out the practice throughout the college dormitories. We are watching other suspicious individuals, and more arrests will follow unless liquor venders take warning, and realize the futility of soliciting business about Harvard...
...Mayor. He sent back to the Mayor a blue steel 45-calibre Colt, a gift when he took office; he sent with it a note accusing the Mayor of putting a damper on his activities, especially of preventing him from padlocking the Ritz Carlton Hotel for violation of the liquor law. Philadelphia was in uproar. General Butler had a good record on statistics...
...evangelist-one David S. Kidd-pleaded with the woman to forsake sin. In reply she asked facetiously for liquor. He gave her water, read the Bible to her, persuaded her to repent. She returned to the home of her father-one W. C. Byrne, Toronto millionaire. Recently the girl, having inherited all her father's money, died in Jasper, Fla. To Mr. Kidd-now called the Rev. David S. Kidd-Byrne-she left $36,000,000. (Such is the substance of a story broadcast last week by the United Press...