Word: whiskeys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tasted after this raw whiskey of grief. Irishman Joyce's poems will seem well aged...
...Georgetown, D. C., home of James Roosevelt, first son of the President, was looted in his absence. Stolen were a valuable pair of cuff links and a watch given him by his grandfather. Scattered about the upset rooms were whiskey, wine, and liqueur bottles, emptied by the thieves during their activities...
...business which Johnny Torrio went into and later sold was a firm named Prendergast Davies Co., Ltd. which then specialized in acquiring Government revenue tax stamps, putting them on cut whiskey. Aware in April 1936 that the Government was investigating his affairs, Johnny Torrio blandly decided on another trip to Italy, applied for a passport. When he went to the White Plains, N. Y. post office to get the decoy registered letter which the Government mailed to him, he was popped into jail. When bail was set at $100,000, his wife produced it in cash from her handbag...
...Elias Hicks, a Long Island farmer (1748-1810) preached doctrines which smacked of Unitarianism, seceded from the Society of Friends to form his own group. *As much as members of a tolerant faith may be, U. S. Friends are currently incensed at the makers of Old Quaker Whiskey, and at advertisements for Old Taylor Whiskey which lately featured a picture and a poem of Quaker John Greenleaf Whittier...
...peel and possessed "an aromatic bouquet with a heavier underlying odor like that of tobacco steeped in water." The Times went on to add that it "created in the drinker a sensation of self-centered power, while the images of external things buckled and broke." Its title: King Kong Whiskey...