Word: pint
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Messrs. Cooper, McReynolds, Carson, Atwater and some 300 other patrons were dancing, two dozen U. S. agents fell upon their tables, plucked at hip flasks and pint bottles, set the place into an uproar. Women shrieked and fainted. One tore the sleeve out of her escort's coat trying to drag him to safety. Arrested were eleven patrons on the charge of liquor possession (a misdemeanor under the Volstead Act), 16 employes charged with providing "set-ups." Through a hooting, jeering Broadway crowd, the 27 men were taken to the police station, later held in $500 or more bail...
Last week Attorney General William DeWitt Mitchell rushed to the defense of the Jones Law, vigorously opposed any such change in the classification of liquor violations. He pointed out the "inexactness of definition" in the House bill, explained that "a 'single sale' includes a barrel as well as a pint," warned that such a divison of Prohibition offenses would make it doubly hard for the U. S. to prosecute under the Jones Law. He feared that the effect of such a bill would be to reduce the whole scale of Prohibition penalties. Wrote...
...smuggled across the border into Argentina, and will then start dancing in Buenos Aires at one of the Bix Six cafes: Ta-Ba-Ris, Armenonville, Casino Pigall, Maipu Pigall, American Dancing and Folies Bergere. Of these the first two are comparatively high class, with champagne obligatory at $13 per pint or $23 the bottle; but at the last four mere "drinks" are obligatory at between $2 and $3 each, the hostesses gulping colored water and male visitors raw alcoholic abominations...