Word: barleycorn
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When knockout drops in the form of the Volstead Act for enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment were served up to John Barleycorn last January, the Anti Saloon League thought he had passed out forever form American life. Temporarily he had, but the combination of wood alcohol and the W. C. T. U.'s "Tobacco Next" campaign showed that, like Mark Twain, his obituary notice was "greatly exaggerated...
...towns that have been dry for generations landsliding into the wet column; when 2.75 per cent, and 3.50 per cent beers are being upheld by local courts throughout the country; When the workings of the Anti-Saloon League are being investigated by the New York Assembly, we find Mr. Barleycorn exhibiting the same old kick that made him famous...
Does the CRIMSON stand officially and solidly for John Barleycorn and for the Noxious Weed...
...Great is the fall thereof." And to the music of tinkling glass, takes place the last act of the happiest tragedy ever told, the "Passing of John Barleycorn." The amendment by which prohibition shall be written into the Constitution, has been ratified at last by the necessary number of states. Well may the tragic minority echo the prophetic words attributed to Nat Goodwin when, blindfolded, he was given water to taste. "I don't know what it is but it will never be popular...
...John Barleycorn had a long life and served his purpose well,--after his fashion. On cold nights he made us warm; on hot days he made us cool. When we were melancholy, he made us gay; when we were gay, he made us melancholy--the next morning...