Word: barleycorn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...road tryouts was a play adapted by John M. Kirkland from the tale, long told in U. S. folksong, of the tragic triangle of Frankie, Johnnie and Nellie Bly. Composed of a series of simple quatrains, the song has been altered and elaborated by so many artists, including John Barleycorn, that no one person can ever have heard or imagined all its verses. Yet the basic story has simple, tragic dignity which does not depend on the length or bawdiness which always characterize its rendition. Frankie was a harlot. Johnnie was her man. But Johnnie loved Nellie Bly. So Frankie...
...immense majority of U. S. citizens, alcohol denotes either that which is shudderingly referred to as Demon Rum or affectionately described as John Barleycorn. Yet, despite the tremendous amount of advertising which alcohol as a beverage has immemorially received, its use for industrial (i. e., non-beverage) purposes has been and remains one of its vitally important functions. True, last week's formation of General Industrial Alcohol Corp., merger of General Industrial Alcohol Co., Inc., National Industrial Alcohol Co., Inc., and two smaller industrial alcohol companies, was a matter of no great moment to the Anti-Saloon League...
...brazen Lady Nicotine has grown bold. She now walks the streets in the better part of town and openly solicits the patronage of the young folks. Be careful Old Girl or you'll find yourself behind a deadline down in the restricted district along with John Barleycorn, where you belong...
...produces descendants neither colored nor white, frequently ostracized by both, he went on to say. "The family unit is destroyed, and all genuine society suffers. All intermixing in times of slavery was illegal intermixing. Perhaps some one in the audience would make this legal. But did Prohibition purge John Barleycorn...
...lower house of Congress and so proud of his career were the people, that they put him in the seat occupied by the beloved William McKinley as Governor. The one time he was defeated for office was not by a Democrat or a Republican but by John Barleycorn-just before this sum total of all things iniquitous was kicked into his grave. The fact that John had once knocked out "our Frank," was so hotly resented by the good people of Ohio that they urged him thereafter to spend most of his time in Washington, D. C., as Senator from...