Word: barleycorn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...primrose path along which Lady Nicotine is being invited to follow John Barleycorn...
Ever since the passage of the Volstead Act, the bewildered public has been vainly trying to discover the precise constitutional position of John Barleycorn. Every day new decisions and interpretations are given out, until one may be quite sure that today's ruling will be reversed somewhere else before the week is out. So completely are our law-making and judicial bodies in the hands of the lawyer class, that public life has degenerated into a mere contest to see whether one side can make laws faster than the other side can pick holes in them. "Diamond cut diamond...
This organization did help to kill John Barleycorn, yet there were at the same time many other and more powerful forces working for the overthrow of Demon Rum. But the Women's Christian Temperance Union flatter themselves, if they believe that alone they can subdue Lady Nicotine...
Middle Entry.--Rooms 9-10, 13-16, "John D. Barleycorn, Jr."--G. M. Weeks, Jr.; M. P. Davis, T. S. Lamont, P. S. Dickson, R. L. Finley, R. W. Gratwick, P. Hofer, W. Davis, W. De Ford, T. H. Mills, H. H. Faxon, J. A. Sessions; room 12, "Claverly Two," A. E. Chambers, J. D. Merwin...
Governot Edwards of New Jersey has been the first politician to see turning of the tide and it's not inconceivable that he will ride to the White House on the hearse that carries Barleycorn back from his grave. John, at any rate, is showing a terrific comeback...