Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seals bore the faint impress of a coin stamped with the word LIBERTY and below In God We Trust-a U. S. 25? piece, latest issue. Smell deceptive, taste unmistakably raw. Report by the Mirkin Analytical and. Pathological Laboratory, Inc., 133 Second Avenue: "Proof 90; alcohol by volume 45%; extractive matter [i. e. benedictine flavor] 23%; wood alcohol, none. . . . The examined sample is free from harmful ingredients and can be used for drinking purposes...
...substitute for liquor control. But like a thoroughgoing Wet he sounded when he said: "The 18th Amendment and the Volstead Act made unlawful the traffic in liquor-not its use. . . . Sincere friends of temperance have done the cause of Prohibition its greatest injury by insisting that the use of alcohol has become immoral." As a climax, Orator Fort plumped for home winemaking, home-brewing...
...Maryland who publicly made high-powered wine in his home only to be acquitted in a test case by a Baltimore jury. In New York a court case was found where a U. S. judge had ordered confiscated ten barrels of home-made wine because it contained 13% alcohol...
...have multiplied. We are under the reign of the bludgeon and of force. The very church, its bishops and ministers, cheer all sorts of pain and shootings; it applauds force. Have we lost the right of conscience? Are we slaves? We need emancipation ! . . . The Lord could have destroyed all alcohol and made men automatic creatures if he wished. Did He do it? No! He wanted...
...churchwomen met in the Hartman Theatre, named after the late Dr. Samuel S. Hartman, inventor of "Peruna," sensational oldtime patent medicine (which once contained about 40% alcohol). Other meetings were held in hotels, schools, theatres. Layman after layman, pastor after pastor, youth after youth, expounded world peace, church unity, Prohibition, etc., etc. As the days passed, it appeared that the convention was definitely Modernistic. Vigorously so, progressive, for example, was Samuel S. Wyer, baldish, mustachioed Columbus consulting engineer, who addressed the laymen thus: "I doubt if there is any other book which ranges from such sublime heights to such degrading...