Word: whiskeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Under the present Ontario law (that the new bill may replace) the sale of 4.4% beer and whiskey on a doctor's prescription is permitted. Many bootleggers flourish. The new bill makes sure that liquor will only be sold through government stores by a provision for compulsory jail sentence without option of a fine for the unauthorized sale of as much as one bottle of liquor...
...What is likely to occur if one swallows the white of an egg or some olive oil before drinking up some potent whiskey cocktails...
...potent whiskey cocktails are likely to have little or no effect...
Meanwhile, in Washington, D. C., last week the French Embassy permitted itself to be vexed. Its legal, semi-annual shipment of whiskey, gin, wines and champagne had arrived with all the diplomatic seals broken and with one-fourth of the consignment missing...
...Boston professional hockey team was returning from Quebec in its special car. At the border custom officers boarded the train; were shocked to find 20 quarts of whiskey concealed in the athletes' luggage. The contraband liquor was seized; fines of five dollars per bottle imposed; reprimands administered. Just as the culprits were about to be sent on their way, further search of the car revealed 65 additional bottles hidden in a linen closet. The car was detached from the train; the entire team detained in Richford...