Word: whiskeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inventor of Oscar Sauce; with his wife for a three-months' tour in Europe?his first vacation after 41 years of uninterrupted work in the U. S.; David Warfield; William J. Burns; 52 Boy Scouts; "Pussyfoot" Johnson to convince the Moslems, the Indians and the Ceylonese that drinking Scotch whiskey is wrong...
...Aquitania (Cunard)?Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, Chinese Minister to the U. S.; Sir Joseph Duveen, art patron; Arne Borg, Swedish swimming champion; Mrs. B. Schinasi, wife of the famed cigarette manufacturer; Hiram H. Walker, distiller of "Canadian Club" whiskey; Miss Abby Rockefeller, daughter of John D. Rockefeller, Jr.; Samuel Insull, Chicago Opera patron; Ada May, late of Lollipop...
...indictments for alleged Veterans' Bureau frauds, mentioned, as a sort of aside, that the cases of two Congressmen ought to be looked into (TIME March 10, 17). Mr. Langley and four others were indicted for a supposed conspiracy formed in 1921 to remove illegally 1,400 cases of whiskey from a Kentucky distillery. Two of the defendants turned state's evidence and accused Langley. The Congressman stoutly maintained his innocence throughout, sticking to the statement he had made when he was first charged with conspiracy: "I have served this Government in an official capacity for more than...
...average annual consumption of whiskey in the U.S. during the ten years prior to Prohibition was 130, 000,000 gallons. In the calendar year 1923 whiskey withdrawn under Government permits was 1,696,360 gallons. The exact amount of bootleg whiskey consumed is not known...
Take a large drink of cider, brazenly paraded as whiskey, and mix with the constitution of a hitherto respectable widow...