Word: quart
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Agent Lon H. Tyson told how, accompanied by his wife, he had made the acquaintance of one Louis Zalud, headwaiter at "Helen Morgan's Summer Home," who served them a pint of rye whiskey, some ginger ale, a quart of champagne and a cover charge, all for $55.75. The rye was served in ginger ale bottles. Headwaiter Zalud stirred the champagne in the glasses with a wooden stick and said: "This is to get the gas out of your champagne...
...second time. On their third visit Louis Zalud brought Helen Morgan, the "hostess," to their table and introduced her. She sat down and asked for brandy. When it came, they complimented her on its quality. She told them it ought to be good because "it costs us $6.25 a quart wholesale." She explained : "We don't handle gin because all the college boys drink gin....They generally have only about $20 to spend in an evening and bring their own gin." The Tysons & party paid $15 per pint for the $6.25-per-quart brandy. The whole check...
...clubmen opened their mail, last week, with a start of surprise. They were used to advertisements of automobiles, investments, shaving soaps. But they were not used to elaborate, detailed advertisements of champagne. As everyone knows, bootleg champagne in the U. S, market is priced at $10-$15 a quart. These beguiling advertisements suggested the possibility of better-than-bootleg champagne for $2.30. Immediate reactions of cautious clubmen were: 1) It can't be legal; and 2) It can't be good. But the advertisement gave chapter and verse of the Volstead Act in defense of is legality...
Kansas Citizens wrote to prospective visitors and warned that the local law makes it jail offense to possess one quart of intoxicant. They also warned against conventioneering bootleggers, whose stock-in-trade this year is murderously "cut" and atrociously priced. The alternative suggested was to trust to personal Kansas City hospitality, for corn abounds there and it was from corn that mellow bourbon whisky used to be made...
...Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, for 36 years medical missionary to Labrador fishermen, toured the U. S., took notes, then told a Montreal audience of his findings: "Whiskey is $10 a quart in Chicago. ... It is said that prohibition has been a failure in New York but I learned that societies which used to care for neglected children have closed their doors for want of something to do. Prohibition is the best thing that ever struck...