Word: directionable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"When the necessary vast majority of the people of the United States finally make up their minds that Prohibition is not effective they will want Prohibition modified, but they will want it modified in the direction of genuine temperance. That means that they will not want it modified by Tammany...
"Oho," said Democrats, "Mr. Hoover has sat upon Mrs. Willebrandt. He has told her her zeal must not go too far or in the wrong direction. New York is the biggest of the States, and hard enough to Hooverize, without annoying it. Mr. Hoover has thanked Mrs. Willebrandt and he...
There are plenty of flaws in the construction and direction of Goin' Home-enough, perhaps, to prevent its being the success that its vigor and perception deserve. It seems unfortunate, though it is a minor point, that a black rascal should be required to use so frail an expletive...
Peasants and military reservists fought the flames mightily, inspired by the actual participation of Royalty in the sousing and beating out of Fire, and in the lighting of controlled counter fires to check the progress of the conflagration. That His Majesty's participation was not "bunk" shortly appeared, when...
"Chickens and turkeys are a bad mixture. Turkeys convey gapeworms to chickens, and chickens convey blackhead to turkeys. Raise one or the other, but not both unless you can keep them well separated." "$2,500,000 worth of cabbages went into sauerkraut in a recent year. About one-seventh the...