Word: liquorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...DIARIES OF GEORGE WASHINGTON-John C. Fitzpatrick (Editor) - Houghton, Mifflin, 4 vols. ($25). The complete diaries of our pater patriae, showing how dull was his daily round and how much liquor he bought for his establishment...
...Miriam A. Ferguson, Governor of this state, charged with enforcement of the law of the state, do hereby offer a reward of $500 for the arrest and conviction of any citizen of this state for violating the liquor laws who is worth, in property or money, as much...
...wealthy business men can fill their lockers full of liquor and boast in company about how much they have and the brand they have and not be molested, while the penitentiary is being filled with poor devils who have neither friends nor money, who have been found guilty of having a pint 'on the hip' or making a little liquor for home consumption-then, indeed, when all these things happen justice becomes a mockery and the law becomes a stench in the nostrils of all law-abiding people...
...Chief Justice Taft, in the Carroll case, said: 'It would be intolerable and unreasonable if a prohibition agent were authorized to stop every automobile on the chance of finding liquor and thus subject all persons lawfully using the highways to the inconvenience and indignity of such a search...
...Pittsburgh at the leading hotel, an "Anti-Prohibition Enlightenment Dinner" was held by the local branch of the National Association against Prohibition. Congressman John Philip Hill of Maryland, discussed a bill he will present 1) to repeal the Volstead Act; 2) to have each state define for itself "intoxicating liquors" referred to in the 18th Amendment, and enforce its own laws on the subject; 3) to have the Federal Government punish any person guilty of transporting into any state liquor more potent than therein allowed, the punishment to be ten years' imprisonment...