Word: acted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Wilson vetoed the Volstead Act." (Nominee Robinson voted for it.) ". . . The Prohibition Bureau has been under the Treasury Department, whose head, prior to national prohibition, was largely interested in the liquor business...
...imposed upon the country during the War, while a majority of our voters were unable to register their disapproval. But the plain facts are that more than two-thirds of the local option districts of the United States were dry long before the war and that the dry Federal Act was but the national and natural expression of that dry local option majority. The people of these same districts are still dry and are not going to change constitution or legislation until they have lost faith in Prohibition as a remedy for the liquor evil. I believe that day will...
...undeniable demand for attention. Gang War deals with the adventures of a beer king who is engaged in guerrilla fighting with members of a rival bootlegging concession. Also, he has two frails, of whom one gets quickly killed. So does the beer king and many another. In the last act one gang drops bombs on the other from an airplane, filling the theatre with smoke and confusion. The action-of which there is plenty-is largely laid in the beer king's den, a place of small tables, gats, a periscope, and other gangish claptrap. Here, in a moment...
...after the War, some difficulty in sending money from the U. S. to certain states in the interior of Europe. To insure safety, people who wanted to do so entrusted their currency to travelers rather than the mails. Jake Horowitz got the notion that it might be profitable to act as a paid courier for this purpose and set out, with several companions, to do so. By the time the party reached Paris, they were broke. When they drew lots to see which one should stay in Paris instead of going further, Horowitz got the short straw. Paris, he knew...
...between the two. As he eased past his rival Jockey Moler brought his riding-crop down upon the shoulders of Rival-Jockey Fisher. Though no jockey may be penalized if in the frenzy of the home stretch he thwacks his mount, he shall be punished if caught in the act of thwacking a competing jockey. Moler passed the finish line ahead of his rival but was disqualified for striking him: the race went to Fisher...