Word: whiskeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Trail of '98. Here is a good old-fashioned thriller on a glorified scale. It is in Alaska's snowy Klondike where men are after gold, gold, GOLD! The villain, of course, is named Jack Locasto (Harry Carey). He has plenty of gold and a whiskey passion for the unspeakably lovely heroine (Dolores Del Rio). But she is properly enamored of a poor but handsome prospector (Ralph Forbes), who hopes some day to give her a house with 100 windows. He suffers life and near death and blizzard, finally finds gold, comes back to save dark Dolores from the clutches...
...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...
...land, attended the annual convention of the Columbia Scholastic Press Association in Manhattan last week, saw how linotype machines were made, visited plants of New York City newspapers, heard President Karl August Bickel of the United Press say: "The day of the hardboiled, cynical reporter with a bottle of whiskey in one pocket, and an American Mercury in the other, has passed. Ideals are higher now. . . . This condition has come about largely by reason of the influence of young people. This generation is the best we ever have had. One young man, Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, raised the tone...
...learn in kindergarten into the intricacies of intermediate and advanced prohibition. At six he will be taught to avoid alcohol and tobacco. Having grown proficient at this, he is ready for a more detailed study. He is soon to be taught that cigarettes discolor the fingers and that whiskey makes noses read, which subject suggests laboratory work for that year. In due course he reaches the advanced courses to be given in the study of alcohol in relation to the city, the state, and the nation...
...Courtaulds melon was less extravagant. On the Curb Exchange, Courtaulds rose from 38½ to 42½; the next day was a U. S. holiday so that Manhattan brokers could sit and watch the play that was going on in Throgmorton Street. They whispered their applause over whiskey and soda; then, on the next morning, they took their profits from the rise...