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Whether or not the sympathy of the teaching profession is with teachers who want to smoke, it was demonstrated last week that teachers disapprove drinking. Of five professional groups specially polled by the Literary Digest-lawyers, physicians, bankers, clergymen, teachers-the last were first in point of Dryness (95,422 for enforcement, 22,705 for modification, 38,956 for repeal...
Bone drys can extract little comfort from the returns. In the aggregate they are distinctly unfavorable to an uncompromising prohibition program and they dispose effectively of the delusion that when the "dying generation of topers" disappears, dryness will become as prevalent as aridity in Gobi...
From the musty dryness of a Canopic jar which once stood in a Pharaoh's tomb a London surgeon took the dead Pharaoh's dried and leather heart. He dissected it and marveled. His amazement he told to Sir Berkeley George Andrew Moynihan, president of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, honorary fellow of the American Surgical Association, who last week retold: The heart showed a fatty degeneration and a hardening, and it was, wonderfully, the heart of that very Pharaoh Menephthah of whom the Lord said unto Moses, Pharaoh's heart is hardened. . . . (Exodus...
...unsuccessful competitor in the Durant contest was Gifford Pinchot, dust-dry onetime (1923-27) Governor of Pennsylvania. Mr. Pinchot denounced the practice of allowing foreign diplomats to import liquor for diplomacy. Mr. Pinchot said also that only the influence of an ardently dry President can bring about national dryness. He considers President-Elect Hoover satisfactorily dry. He considers that Presidents Wilson, Harding & Coolidge were "apathetic...
Making certainty doubly certain that Dryness was, at least outwardly, more ascendant than ever, were the Congressional returns. As every one knows, few Congressmen vote as they drink. Outspokenly wet Senators are especially rare. Next year they will be rarer. The two wettest-Maryland's Bruce and New Jersey's Edwards-lost their seats. So did Rhode Island's Gerry, Delaware's Bayard. Missouri's vindictive Reed retires and Missouri's Roscoe C. Patterson will...