Word: column
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night of Repeal, now many months heralded by brassy clarion sounds and the low moans of boot-leggers, is the finish of a flaming column in the scroll of American delusion. Presumably, it ushers in a day of betterment: there will come the fall of the beer baron and rum runner; the stomachal conditions of the ailing members of every University in the country will be improved; revenue will come to the government, and wine to the table; and finally, the course of a few generations may see the people of the nation taught to appreciate fine liquors...
...since President Harrison flung open the Oklahoma Indian Territory has the U. S. seen anything like what it will see next week when Prohibition is stricken from the Constitution. On that April morning in 1889 a surging column of men on foot, men on horseback, men in buggies, buckboards, dump-carts, whole families in covered wagons stretched across the prairie in a straight line. Men fought and cursed and jockeyed for a front position behind Federal troopers. At noon a bugle blast split the air. On to the old Indian lands swept 50,000 men, women, children, pioneers, drifters, squatters...
...Saturday Review's personal column started when Poet Louis Untermeyer returned from a trip to Sardinia with a donkey which he wanted to sell. He accepted Editor Canby's suggestion to advertise it in the Saturday Review. Editor Canby and Colyumist Morley insist that none of the advertisements is written in the office...
More surprising than Utah's wetness was the fact that North Carolina, by a vote of 2-to-1, and South Carolina by a narrow majority, shrank into the Dry column...
With today's Issue another writer joins Castor and Pollux in the conduct of this column...