Word: barleycorn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years I had drunk one quart of whiskey a day. On January 28th, 1896, I took my last drink." So runs a typical testimonial to the once-famous Keeley Institute in the cornbelt town of Dwight, Ill., long a Mecca for drunkards who wanted to get out of John Barleycorn's clutches...
Famed throughout Texas grew Pitchfork Smith's thunderous writings, his private battles, his oratorical eloquence. Old timers still quote from his street-corner oration on the death of John Barleycorn, the night before Prohibition took effect. One of his speeches ("When You Die, Will You Live Again?") was so highly esteemed by one P. S. Harris, president of Lucky Tiger Remedy Co., that Mr. Harris gave The Pitchfork a lifetime advertising contract, reprinted the speech and sent copies to every barbershop...
With the statement by Harry H. Porter, President of the National Safety Council, that in his opinion at least 60 per cent of all automobile accidents in 1937 were due to drunken driving, the ghost of John Barleycorn once again raises its dissipated head. In spite of the desperate attempts of national brewers to press his pants and give him an old-fashioned face-lifting, it is the same old man that haunted prohibition societies in the early nineteen hundreds. He is back again; and unless he has mended his ways--which is exceedingly doubtful, considering the nature...
...immediately taken, an outburst of public indignation will surely result. Massachusetts, for example, saw in 1937 a 40 per cent increase of its evening automobile accidents, with increases in arrests for drunkenness corresponding. Figures for 1938 show that the condition is becoming worse. If prohibition failed to squelch Mr. Barleycorn, surely repeal has sent him off on one whopper of a bender...
Author Stone, himself a smart and self-confident young man, admires the youthful London and all his works for reasons that appear a bit superficial. As critics pointed out when Sailor on Horseback was serialized, some of its best passages are lifted from London's autobiography (John Barleycorn) with a mere transposition of pronouns from...