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Baltimore have run openly and in great numbers for years. Good domestic gin, most popular drink, sells for $1 per pint. Maryland moonshiners supply the city with a fair grade of whiskey while the best drug store rye (cut) can be freely obtained for $5 per pint. Good beer is to be had from Pennsylvania at 35 cents the glass. There is little or no homebrewing because the liquor market is too wide open. Chesapeake Bay shipping provides wealthy Vets with expensive foreign goods. As U. S. attorney Mr. Woodcock used to leave his apartment on Charles Street every evening...
...yellowish-white liquid which, as Japanese scientists ingeniously say "stands midway between wine and beer." Usual alcoholic strength 12 to 15%. The 60,000,000 Japanese drink 150,000,000 gallons of sakė yearly. Like gin, sakė contains a dash of glycerin...
...duelists stand a sabre's length apart, stripped to the buff. At the side of each is a second. Doctors and corporation officials are present; fellow members sit about drinking beer and watching the "fun." About the middle of each duelist is fastened a protective pad, about each throat a thick scarf to prevent severance of the jugular vein. Over the eyes are placed wire mesh goggles; a steel snout protects the nose. The duelists' prime targets are one another's cheeks and forehead...
...Bellwood, Pa., Donald W. Wertz, driving a loaded ice truck, hailed a stranger confidently: "I have 20 cases of beer on that truck. You can help yourself if you watch it while I take a nap." The stranger arrested sleepy Mr. Wertz, for he was E. D. James, local chief of police...
...entubed beer analyzed at less than ½% of 1% alcohol. There was no legal case. Explained Agent Porter: "I never would have believed it. ... The saloonkeepers spray the tops of kegs of nearbeer with alcohol. That gives the taste and smell of alcoholic beer...