Word: vodka
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Personally I have never experienced such profound relief as when my train crossed the little bridge that separates Russia from Latvia. Even the conductor, who goes in and out every week, uncorked a hidden bottle of vodka...
...Nikolai had a slight relapse. Trotzky stands Red Army free vodka...
...Russia, a law was passed in 1914 prohibiting the sale of vodka. In 1916, restrictions were placed upon all liquor. A measure allowing the sale of wine was passed...
Author's Pajamas? Lewis St. Clair, popular novelist, arose from his perfumed couch, par took of a frugal breakfast of spaghetti and vodka, and stepped out into the glare of his prominence. His 5,000,000 readers, of varying sexes and doubtful ages, gave little excited shivers and trained their opera glasses immediately upon him. For it is a characteristic of all readers that they would rather see an author than read another of his books. They would give ten times the price of his complete works to know that he parts his left eye-brow in the middle...
...Vodka," said Lenin and Trotzky, and they raised their boots to the third button on the tail of Prince Michael's coat in order to help him through the door. And the long night was short and the cold night was warm to Lenin and Trotzky, because of the devilish little saint made of rye and barley and potatoes, the saintly little devil that trickles down one's throat and into one's stomach 'and so on,--Vodka...