Word: liquorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some time after May 5, the S.S. Pellegrini, big French tramp steamer, left her native waters. She slipped clumsily across the ocean, arrived, last week, at Rum Row. She was heavily laden. It may have been as much as 50,000 cases of liquor that she carried...
Along this line were found about 90 vessels, steam and sail, engaged in liquor traffic. One or more U. S. vessels placed themselves a few yards from each of the smugglers. It became impossible for the smugglers to unload their cargoes into launches ("rummies"), with the result that the launches stayed idly at their docks along the shore...
Perhaps the filtering of light through a bottle conveys some mysterious information to those erudite persons who have made a study of the liquor question. Or it may be that the aroma of evaporating foam wafted to nostrils that are sensitive enough betrays the worthlessness of the beverage. But until these possibilities are established there remains a very grave question. Is it possible that Mr. Wheeler could have tasted the Ontario beer...
Most of these crimes incur a fine of $100 to $500 and from one to six months in jail. Transporting liquor by vehicle can cost up to $1,000 and two years incarceration. In nearly all cases the second offense is costlier. Purchasing liquor is as criminal as selling...
Died. Charles F. Kent, 58, professor of Semitic Languages and Biblical Literature at Yale University; in Mount Carmel, Conn., after a long illness. He was the editor of a "Shorter Bible" which, critics averred, omitted all favorable references to liquor, emphasized all attacks upon it; and of many other religious works...