Word: drys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...practice, the local-option act satisfied neither wets nor drys, and as provincial liquor laws were enacted, more and more communities abandoned it. Last week two Ontario counties, the last holdouts, opted out, and after 81 years the Canada Temperance Act was dead...
...proposal to abolish the "dry" cleaning corps of the student porter system has failed decisively to pass the Committee on Houses. As opposed to "wet" cleaners, who disinfect the bathrooms, the "drys" vacuum each room once a week...
W.C.T.U.-Turn. In Bowmanville, Ont., a plebiscite victory over the Drys was won by the Wets, operating out of campaign headquarters on Temperance Street...
...Quit being ashamed and embarrassed," he said. "Don't hide behind the scorn of the professional 'drys.' You have let them shrink you into a gigantic inferiority complex." Pastor Mangrum, who knows his licensed beverages from five years in a Skid Row parish in Detroit, told the tavern owners to join churches and work with community organizations. "If one denomination does not have need of you, except when it wants back-door contributions extracted through implied blackmail . . . you will find that the traditional Christian groups want you and need...
WOMEN IN LIQUOR ADS, long banned voluntarily by distillers to soothe drys, are okayed under new agreement by advertisers. First ads with women will probably show up in January...