Word: eighteenth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...order changeth and Progress is an exemplary ambition. Perhaps Mother Goose willingly aids and abets the Noble Experiment. Forsaking her eternal kingdom she will be seen in the night air stealthily aeroplaning--of course her broomstick is antiquated--hither and yon disseminating the evils of drink. Yes, the Eighteenth Amendment is an honorable thing and even Mother Goose should garner a Cause for her dotage...
...plot has to do with the difficulties of one who suddenly finds himself transplanted from the present into the Eighteenth century. A charming old house in Berkley Square with its glamorous traditions of lovely ladies and powdered wigs forms the background in which the half-forgotten specters of the past are brought once more to life. Peter Standish, Leslie Howard, a man of the present with an Eighteenth century counter-part is enchanted by the historic flavor of the past with its sedan chairs and coaches, but when he finds himself immersed in the actualities that went along with this...
Slowly but surely the idea that public opinion might be a good gauge of the success of the Eighteenth Amendment has been penetrating into the administrative consciousness of our country. At last the need is felt for a dispassionate compilation of facts with which to back up after-dinner arguments. Until now this undertaking has been almost entirely in unofficial hands, the most noteworthy counts of wet sentiment having been taken by the Literary Digest in 1922 and again in 1930. But now the new research division of the Prohibition Bureau is mailing questionnaires to three thousand editors of American...
This is the first time in a somewhat long public career that I have been characterized as a "Dry." I am not a "Dry"; I have never been a "Dry," and I believe fervently in the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment...
With the platforms of both Republican and Democratic parties in New York State advocating Repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment, it seems apparent that the people of the Empire State are sufficiently dissatisfied with the present situation to take their interest to the polls. Only a question which involves personal tastes and habits could so pierce the political apathy of the United States. Undoubtedly its citizenry will display the same unanimity of choice next Monday when President Hoover's Boston speech to the Federation of Labor will compete with the fifth of the world baseball series over the radios...