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Prohibition is still a popular source for vaudeville quips. Last night at Keith's the billtoppers, Billy B. Van and James A. Corbett, had the house with both hands in their skit. "The Eighteenth Amendment", and Percy Bronson and Winnie Baldwin presented a one-act fantasy, picturing the effect of a bottle of scotch on the young man of 1971. Nor did others neglect the opportunity for occasional dry humor...
Corbett is still the same old Jim, tall, well-tailored and wearing the same impenetrable face. He forms a perfect foil for the antics of his partner, his eloquent speech on the eighteenth amendment being completely lost in the gales of merriment aroused by the contortions of Van, as the latter attempts to tell his "red" joke...
...epigrammatic declaration: "The honest enforcement of the law may lend to its modification: the tolerated disobedience of it can only breed disorder and create contempt for all law." In these words Governor Miller sets forth a fundamental principle. There has been a strong tendency here abouts to place the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead law in a class apart and to talk and act as if a citizen were free to obey or to violate them as he chose. Governor Miller recalls people to their senses with the sharp reminder that law is law. To disobey the prohibition law because...
...notorious violation," flagrant acts of corruption"--if these manifestations are not enough to warrant such a demand as Governor Miller makes, then we had better stop professing to be governed by law. One point in the message should appeal with special force to those who have objected to the Eighteenth Amendment as an invasion of State rights. If we are to leave its enforcement to the Federal Government it would require "an army of agents in every State," which "manner of enforcement will strongly tend to break down State power." The Governor urges "the speedy passage of an effective enforcement...
Ever since the eighteenth amendment went into effect, we have been deluged with jokes about what the Women's Christian Temperance Union will prohibit next. 'We have been told that one thing after another will be fought: first liquor, then tobacco, then tea and coffee, and so on until they have succeeded in passing amendments, prohibiting carrying matches, and the chewing of gum on Sundays. We have seen such jokes' continually, and have been more or less amused at the incongruous products of the writer's imagination...