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Since the 1850s, when local option laws prohibited the sale of liquor to "any man against the known wishes of his wife," Kansas had made it tough-but not impossible-for a man to get a drink. By 1880, Kansas drys decided that they could trust neither the bartenders nor the wives, adopted an amendment flatly prohibiting the sale or possession of liquor...
...Alper also observed that it would be hard to reconcile a utilitarian topic such as marriage, evaluating who washes and who drys, at "a place such as Harvard, which is supposedly a liberal arts college, and has always shied away from the applied...
...treated the press to cocktails, Florida pineapple, breast of chicken on Virginia ham, baked Alaska. As a savory, it brought in 1) its postwar appliance models and 2) a brand new president. Most impressive among the new products was a "laundromat" which automatically fills itself, washes clothes, rinses and drys them, empties, then cleans itself...
Tolerance. In Nebraska prohibitionists tried to put it over again while the boys were at war. The drys were inundated...
...White House. Franklin Roosevelt put his name in nomination for President, and gave him the nickname that stuck for the rest of his life-"The Happy Warrior." It was not Al Smith's year. He was a Catholic and a Wet, and the Southerners and the Drys were against him. But by 1928 a Democratic boom for Al Smith swept the country. When the convention met at Houston, Tex., the opposition forces of 1924 had swung behind...