Word: drinkers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...issue is no longer Wet or Dry, but Law or Lawlessness, and the basis of all the Contest and my effort is to bring home to the lawless drinker that he is aiding in violating the law, and as such is, in the words of President Harding, "a menace to the Republic itself...
...Clark's statement concludes as follows: "The Scofflaw, most emphatically, does not 'Play the Game'. The Umpire, the American Nation, has ruled that Prohibition is 'safe', and that the drinker is 'out'. But the Scofflaw refuses to accept the Umpire's ruling. To hell with America!' he snarls, "I've got to have my drink...
...dictionary of the future will contain the above entry, if the popular imagination is captured by the winning word in the $200 contest which has been conducted recently by Delcevare King '95 for an epithet of bitter opprobrium applicable to a lawless drinker. From among over 25,000 words submitted by 6234 people, the winning term was chosen, according to the announcement of the award made last night by the judges...
...order to popularize his new term, Mr. King stated that; coincident with the close of the old contest, a new one will begin, in which another $200 will be divided among the authors of the five best 100 word statements of why the drinker of illegal beverages should be called a "scofflaw". This second contest closes on January...
President Lowell is on the board of the School of Public Health, which includes Dean D. L. Edsall, as chairman, and Professors M. J. Rosenan '14, E. B. Wilson '99, Hans Zinseer, R. I. Lee '02, and C. K. Drinker...