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...almost completely false. Just a few days later when unimpeachable sources reported that a new "ism"-- the Yale Imperialist Association--had long been burrowing beneath the Yale Campus, "The Times" refused to touch it. Only the courageous "Yale News" dared print that undergraduates "tossed off their vodka, smashed their glasses against the wall, and pledged their White Russian honor to the Romanoffs...
...Finland's Alcohol Monopoly Board upped the already high price of liquor 50%, and was immediately charged by its akvavit and vodka-loving populace with war profiteering...
Above the reception room mantel was a stone-hewn hammer & sickle and a portrait of Dictator Stalin. Drinking champagne, but not touching the bountiful caviar and vodka, Mr. Chamberlain stood below a portrait of Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff all evening, talked with Comrade Maisky for a half hour, departed at n p.m., whereupon the orchestra began to swing...
Maurice Hindus' father was a Jewish kulak, engaged with great resignation in liquidating himself while Lenin and the Bolsheviks were still down-at-heels in London. When he died, his widow had to go into the vodka-selling business in competition with the Government monopoly. In 1905 the Hindus family went to the U. S., rented a couple of rooms on the lower East Side of Manhattan. Maurice did not like the smells of the city. At his first chance, he took a job as farmhand in the upstate town of "Mount Brookville." There, on page 120, Green Worlds...
...opening of the new Council of the Union (House of Representatives) and Council of Nationalities (Senate), delegates from rustic farms downed scorching vodka and wolved caviar with delegates from thundering factories. Hot jazz blared and later the springs of many a de luxe hotel bed groaned under the hulks of exhausted peasants...