Word: barleycorn
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Unofficial reason: Winston Churchill was Dundee's M.P. from 1908 until he was trounced at the polls in 1922 by a Scottish prohibitionist and teetotaler named Edwin Scrymgeour. Mild-eyed Scrym stuffed his speeches with Old Testament quotes on the evils of John Barleycorn, gave Winston a beating he has not forgotten...
John v. John. Concerning the battle between John Barrymore and John Barleycorn he was least reticent of all. He might quip that he was "just an ingenue about booze," but he also boasted that Chaliapin was the only drinking companion who ever laid...
Almost every year, on Jan. 16, anniversary of Prohibition, he delivered a long address on the glories of abstinence, the vileness of John Barleycorn. As chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Committee he was regarded by the War Department as invaluable, since he was that rare person, a civilian expert on military matters...
...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...