Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professional Drys who hold the 18th Amendment sacrosanct found themselves beaten before the delegates assembled at the Stadium. So wide and deep has been the popular revulsion against Prohibition that the convention promptly settled down into a contest between Repeal and Revision, with never a thought of Retention. In the Florentine Room of the Congress Hotel were held perfunctory hearings for the extremists of both sides, after which a committee of 17 went into secret session to jigsaw a 500-word declaration on Prohibition. President Hoover would not stand for outright Repeal as Connecticut's Senator Bingham ardently demanded...
Though romantic Ireland may be buried: deep, as Irish Poet William Butler Yeats averred, there is life in the body yet. A heartening sign of this life is Authoress Farfell's full-flavored tale of Irish manorial life. In the big house at Puppetstown the accumulations of centuries of aristocratic, carefree culture crowd the charming ramshackle rooms. But the Cheving-tons, for all their culture, still follow the ancient traditions of wild-Irish sports and speech...
...sidestepping Prohibition as an issue. Each time the party platform carried a strong law enforcement declaration but weaseled on the 18th Amendment. Warren Gamaliel Harding patted the Drys on the back and took drinks in the White House. Calvin Coolidge did not drink in office but otherwise lacked deep convictions on Prohibition. He felt that it was smart politics to stand in well with the professional Drys because their voting strength was better organized and more effective than the scattered Wets...
...plane of personal as well as official honesty and that, therefore, there is a positive duty on the part of the public official to explain matters which arise on an inquiry which involves the expenditure or the depositing of large sums of money. . . . One of their deep obligations is to recognize this, not reluctantly or with resistance, but freely...
...proletariat for a theme, the plot manages to create a blood-and-thunder milieu, filled with hurricanes, dynamiting, death, and a happy ending. The Turkmen are virtual slaves of the cruel heavy, a Bey with a sneer and black waxed mustachios; the Musselmen laboriously draw water from deep wells for the garden of fig-trees and lettuce which laps Aman the Bey and his harem in luxury. But John Reed Turkman writes to the Reds, who come five strong on a thundering locomotive to water the desert. They brave the storms of the waste, the scorching sun, and the sinister...