Word: camphor
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...with the comic opera itself. There is no smell of camphor or mothballs about the stage, to be sure, but vivid visions of horse-cars, and bustles, and the Spanish War come to mind all the same. The gags are there to laugh at and undoubtedly present all the requisites of humor. At least they did thirty years ago. Yet if this is what the nineties found the height of the entertaining, it is not difficult to understand why the parents of today find it so hard to enjoy the ideas of the "present generation". But another thirty years...
...intoxicating liquor within the meaning of this act shall include all liquids or compounds whether medicated or not and which are capable of being used as beverages and which contain as much as one-half of one per cent of alcohol measured by volume." This definition did not include camphor for instance, which contains ninety per cent of alcohol, because camphor is not potable. On the other hand it would cover every form of fake drugs, which were potable, provided they contained as much as one-half of one per cent. Through the efforts of The Oklahoma Anti-Saloon League...