Word: anti-salooner
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...last fortnight the industrious trainers had taught the elephants to run through these capers without a hitch. Then members of Missouri prohibition clubs and the Anti-Saloon League protested, called the act "not very edifying." Few days later the zoo's board of control watched the elephants perform, called the protest "ridiculous." The show went on, drew enthusiastic applause from its first audiences this week...
...alcohol's effects. Two months ago Drs. Waddell & Haag submitted their report to the State Board of Education, which warmly endorsed the work, sent it to the General Assembly for approval as a textbook. In no time at all the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, the Anti-Saloon League and Virginia's churches had raced to Richmond to raise a clamor in the legislative halls...
...group who built the Anti-Saloon League of America into a great political machine, only to see it die with the passage of the 20th Amendment (Repeal), two of the most zealous. Dr. Howard Hyde Russell and Dr. Francis Scott McBride, last week were again building. Dr. Russell last fortnight celebrated his 82nd birthday. Hale and vigorous, he said: "We've had a setback; we're going to have a comeback!" Dr. Russell and sad-eyed Dr. McBride, superintendent of the League, last week revealed to Philadelphia -first large city to see it in action-the technique...
...Union City, Tenn. a gaunt man staggered into an all-night café to get a bowl of chili, was jailed for drunkenness. Bailed out next afternoon he was found to be Methodist William Gilbert Gaston, field secretary of the Tennessee Anti-Saloon League. Leaguer Gaston objected that he had been framed by Wets, protested: "I would rather be dead than have such a thing occur." Militant Methodist Bishop Horace Mellard Dubose, the Tennessee League's president, regretfully proclaimed : "There is nothing we can do but sever him from the League. . . . The terrible curse of liquor...
...thought up the word anaesthetic in 1846. Appendicitis was introduced by another U. S. physician, Reginald Heber Fitz, 40 years later. Alumnus was taken directly from Latin about 1696, and in 1882 Doglover Albert Payson Terhune's mother, Essayist "Marion Harland," first used alumnae. Politics produced Abolitionist, anti-liquor, anti-saloon, anti-imperialist. From the Southwestern border filtered Spanish words like adobe, alfalfa, arroyo. Also listed as Spanish in origin, on H. L. Mencken's authority, is the U. S. poker term ante...