Word: whiskeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration of Independence would have given the $500,000 to establish breweries and plant vineyards for production of light wine and beer. He believed that would conquer whiskey, which, he said, killed half the population in his day and ruined their families. It wasn't as bad as bootleg whiskey and killed slowly, if surely...
...late Dr. Charles E. Sawyer, President Harding's personal physician, was turned over a five thousand dollar campaign contribution. Dr, Sawyer bought five thousand dollars worth of whiskey with it, which was stored and served at the Harding residence in Marion, Ohio. This...
...tasted alcoholic drink. My janitor was nice to was me for a while; I remember his name. It was -- --.* Then one night he came into my room laughing and shouting. "Here, sport!" he cried, "Drink this! It'll make a man of you!" I drank it. It was whiskey and I rather imagine he had stolen it from some other student. It was the first time I the had ever tasted an strong evening liquor but it was not my last. Many an evening --- and myself caroused, either in my little room or in the Dean's office...
...Greenman Jr., Yale '26: "Some college men drink a lot some of the time, and some a little all the time, but I have never before seen a college where most of the men drink all the time, and study with a glass of whiskey at the desk...
...young today owe him a debt of gratitude. To have vitalized and humanized any portion of history is to have made possible a greater degree of sympathy on the part of succeeding generations: and with sympathy minimizes bigotry and misunderstanding. No future student of that beefsteak and-whiskey decade which began the present century can afford to miss its powerful exponent Mark Sullivan...