Word: liquorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Amour. In comparison to Germany last week pre-Christmas France was paradise. Oysters, caviar, foie gras, turkey, geese or chicken, wines and liquor were all abundant and Premier Edouard...
...Washington, D. C., Lloyd S. Booze was indicted on a charge of holding up the liquor store of a man named Seltzer...
Because of Britain's liquor-curbing early closing laws, extra-late London night life has for years been an affair of "bottle parties" -i.e., the guests either bring their own liquor, paying a stiff "corkage charge" or they leave advance orders at the club to have it sent in from wholesalers and "stored" until the guest arrives. The cheapest wine comes to $4 per bottle by this system, the cheapest whiskey $5. In the World War II bottle party boom, Mayfair clubs are now offering elaborate and sexy floor shows (see cuts), causing some wonder at London...
...Jack be nimble, Jack be quick; Jack jump over this here stick!" shouted the drunken father, who had sold the family Furniture to buy liquor. While mother and sister wept to see such sport, the tearful little sprout jumped over a broom handle, again & again until he fell exhausted. The scene shifted-years had passed. The son, arriving home drunk from a football game, forced his aging father to jump over a stick. "Have mercy on my grey hairs," begged the old man. "You didn't have any mercy on my black ones," said the boy. "Jump again." Father...
...Lignin plastics and vanillin made from sulphite liquor, onetime waste product of the wood-pulp paper industry...