Word: sixteener
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...least effect on those consuming liquor in restaurants and other public dispensaries. There is, in practice, only a very slight pretence at enforcement of this clause elsewhere than in places so rigidly controlled as the House Dining Halls. In any Boston restaurant or tavern, a boy of sixteen who is gifted with a mature face and bearing, may purchase enough liquor to interfere materially with the proper functioning of his limbs. An ordinary boy of eighteen can get his shot of the McCoy anywhere. In Harvard Dining Halls, unfortunately, the man who an hour before was drinking himself insensate...
...University has on hand sixteen cases of ale and forty cases of beer to supply the Houses...
...Orleans topers fared no worse than those of most other cities in the matter of prices. Sixteen-year-old straight whiskeys like Paul Jones, Four Roses and Antique were going at $3 a pint. Jamerson's Irish brought $5 a fifth; Royal George Scotch $4. Cook's Imperial champagne, made in St. Louis ($5 a fifth) sold at national pars...
...toastmaster brought out the fact that the Board of Overseers always chose a true leader for the President of Harvard, and therefore Mr. Conant had been the logical choice as he had played the part of the leading lady in a school play when only sixteen. A Boston newspaper calling President Conant "hard-boiled" was then presented, and the toastmaster said that he was glad that if Harvard had to have a president that had been cooked, he was glad they had picked one that was hardboiled, and not half-baked or stewed...
Also by that time more than 100,000 summer visitors who had been exposed to the disease were scattered throughout the land. Thirty-four of them, in 26 cities, as well as 79 persons still in Chicago, were known to have contracted the disease. Sixteen victims were dead. The U. S. Public Health Service warned all U. S. health officers to be on watch for outbreaks of the disease in their communities...