Word: clayborn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...high spots of the play include: An opening scene in which Senator Cassius Clayborn and his bootlegger are disclosed drinking gin behind the locked door of his office. The Senator is up for reelection. The Reverend Dr. Kew-back, an ardent dry, comes to his office and threatens to ruin his chances by publishing a story about a trip which his daughter made to Atlantic City with her fiance, an attache of the British Legation, unless the Senator will vote a large appropriation for Prohibition enforcement. They also argue over Prohibition. The Senator thrusts the Prohibition Bible (in which "raisin...
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