Word: pints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hanley's and Prehn's. Favorite snacks are rich fudge squares called "Lukers," washed down by Coca-Cola. Beer is too expensive and sale of hard liquor near the campus is forbidden by State law. But almost any Illini can tell the stranger where to get a pint of "corn." And the young philosophy and romance which burgeon in a luxurious Student Union, in 124 dormitories, fraternity & sorority houses and in Fords parked amid the cornfields would be familiar as the alphabet...
Down to the Elizabeth Bridge and back again paraded the midgets, with their scowling Fiihrer (leader) in the van. Too proud to crane his neck, the Hungarian half-pint Hitler stared straight at reporters' knees and explained the program of the National Union of Hungarian Dwarfs...
...Leavenworth Prison, Kans., Harvey Bailey and Albert Bates, kidnappers of Charles F. Urschel, were last week fed a pint of milk every four hours through a hose up the nose. Reason for the feeding: a hunger strike which they later quit. Reason for the hunger strike: solitary confinement. Reason for solitary confinement: refusal to reveal the hiding of $100,000 unrecovered ransom money...
Three other states, Montana, Ohio and Michigan, have government liquor monopolies. In Michigan the first State stores opened last week. Governor Comstock bought the first bottle-a pint...
...Manhattan, Macy's, which boasts that it will not be undersold, was doing a landoffice liquor business. All old straight American whiskeys cost $6.94 a quart, or $3.74 a pint. Other prices: blended Golden Wedding ($2.94 a quart), *** Hennessy ($4.49 a fifth), Holloway's gin ($1.74), Mumm's Cordon Rouge 1926 champagne ($5.74 a quart...