Word: whiskeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another: Down to the last of the Bourbons. Let's see what was that trouble with the Bourbons called? Oh, yes, the Whiskey Rebellion...
...regulate "community life." That, says The Chronicle, means the life of other families. And one family at a time is enough. The Superintendent of Schools at Newark, N. J., banned the Red Cross text-book on hygiene and home care of the sick because it advises that alcohol and whiskey be kept in the home medicine chest for emergency purposes. A movement is understood to be on foot to inform the Superintendent that other similar publications mention narcotics by name and prescribe doses...
...come and carry its liquor to New York or Jersey. The crews of the rum ships do not trust the bootleggers; they are armed with .45 caliber automatics. The reason for this state of continual naval preparedness was divulged by the skipper of the Tuscarora, as trim a whiskey-running schooner as ever dumped her weekly 2,000 cases in a bootleg lighter. In a press interview the skipper pointed out that bootleggers, angry at the high prices charged for Scotch and rye, sometimes turn pirate, board a small ship and steal the alcoholic cargo. A raid or two like...
There is a story about a certain mouse who inadvertently lapped up the drippings from a barrel of whiskey. Consequent to this he made a now famous remark-addressed to the world at large. We mention the mouse because his spirit, it seems to us, is not unknown here today. Those who went down to the field yesterday and are also familiar with the story will be able to appreciate the pertinence of its application on this, the eve of the game...
...connection with the above it would be a shame to miss the wholly delightful parody of Wells contained in such historical papers as "The "Whiskey Rebellion" and "The Battle of Lexington" by Donald Ogden Stewart now appearing in "The Bookman". We are informed that the next in the series is to be "How Love Came to General Grant" done in the manner of Harold Bell Wright...