If women had a voice in the making of the laws, how long would the dram-shop and lowgroggery send out their liquid poison to pollute civilized lands?
1873, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), Charles Dudley Warner,The Gilded Age, Part 4.[2]:
Dusenheimer, standing in the door of his uninvitinggroggery, when the trains stopped for water; never received from the traveling public any patronage except facetious remarks upon his personal appearance.
1908, Allen Chapman,Bart Stirling's Road to Success[3]:
The Sharp Corner was a second-classgroggery and boarding house, patronized almost entirely by the poorest and most shiftless class of trackmen.
An instant later, an empty beer-bottle dropped with a crash in the tonneau, and Donald, turning, beheld in the door of a Darrowgroggery one of the Greek fishermen He had dispossessed.
1925, Various,Stories of Achievement, Volume III (of 6)[6]:
I then proceeded to a lowgroggery in Lincoln Square, and in the space of half an hour drank several glasses of brandy; this in addition to what I had taken before made me very drunk, and I staggered home as well as I could.
