Word: liquorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...McKELLAR: The Senator recalls that he and I were in the House in the old days when liquor was sold in Washington. I want to ask the Senator if he does not recall, when the saloons ran in the city of Washington...
...intend to see the Government enforces prohibition on all persons in the country, whether they are foreigners or not. If we can get along without liquor, so can the envoys...
...Broderick organized a company to buy liquor and ship it-not to U. S. shores but as close thereto as the twelve-mile limit allowed. The idea was not, so the Baronet asserted, to act as a bootlegger. Only it so happened that a craft lying off shore laden with Scotch and other forbidden liquors would soon find buyers swarming towards it. Once his merchandise was sold-for cash-Sir Broderick would cease to be interested in its further history. Perhaps it entered the U. S. Perhaps not. He really could not say. But he sent out circulars inviting...
...early days of the rum fleet were however concluded by the American coast patrol, which seized several thousand cases of contraband liquor belonging to Sir Broderick's company. The Baronet admitted that this disastrous coup exhausted his funds. He gamely stuck at it, however, and announced that he would next try to land cargoes through the "Bahamas International Trading Co." if he could finance the new organization. But the British press frowned upon the venture. The influential London Daily Mail warned prospective investors against it. The apparent result was Sir Broderick's recent bankruptcy...
...Texas, where they pay a $500 bonus for catching a rich man violating the liquor statutes, where the "unwritten law" and the "hip-pocket move" as defenses for killers still bulk large in the eyes of the courts, where they impeach a Governor, elect his wife to the office, and then complain because she follows his advice,--in Texas, they don't believe in evolution either. A dispatch yesterday from the Lone Star State throws light on the mental processes of Texans and their beliefs and disbeliefs...