Word: wining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lowell House is adding to its closetful of traditions 15 Port Glasses with the House Crest. They may be used for the Harvard Beer served nightly at High Table, for though the House has seven squash courts, and some fine lockers for ageing firewood, it has as yet no wine cellar...
...College in regard to the liquorous flow, however, is marked not by confusion on the part of the authorities, but by a glassy silence. The problems which had inevitably to arise on consideration of the Dining Halls to Repeal were precipitated last night, when several students took wine into their Hall. Obviously, if this practice of bringing liquor into meals without the sanction of University officials is continued, it will only serve to complicate the situation. As the chances of selling wines in the Dining Halls appear at present remote, it will be necessary for the University to take...
...scroll of American delusion. Presumably, it ushers in a day of betterment: there will come the fall of the beer baron and rum runner; the stomachal conditions of the ailing members of every University in the country will be improved; revenue will come to the government, and wine to the table; and finally, the course of a few generations may see the people of the nation taught to appreciate fine liquors. As a theoretically certain improvement, Repeal stands before the States, needing no comment; but as a practical happy hunting ground for all the vast breed of gipps and quacks...
...build a huge distillery in Peoria, Ill. for his Hiram Walker-Gooderham & Worts; a Philadelphia gentleman by the name of Simon ("Si'') Neuman who was sure his Publicker Commercial Alcohol Co. could make 17-year-old whiskey in 24 hours. There were importers large & small, California wine growers, New York champagne men, distributors, restaurateurs, hotelmen, bootleggers. There were realtors, hairdressers and elevator boys, all wild-eyed over their ''slices" in this or that liquor syndicate. In London and Glasgow, astute liquor brokers were selling "brands ' on which the printer's ink was still...
...liquor business was the whiskey business. In 1913 the U. S. drank 135,000,000 gal. of rye and Bourbon, 5,000,000 gal. of gin, 1,500,000 gal. of Scotch, a trickle of Irish. Rum, wine, brandy, liqueurs cut no figure. The Prohibition liquor business was an alcohol business and liquor consumption rose to at least 200,000,000 gal. a year. No one knows how much the U. S. taste has changed in the era of cocktails, bad Scotch and gin-&-gingenle. That in 1934 the U. S. will drink at least...