Word: evils
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When the dry forces of America awaken to the fact that they must have a real Prohibition Party in charge of law enforcement they will make more definite progress toward stamping out the drink evil...
...Evil Briand...
...each generation lead its own life that the Black Babyons lived forever in the whispered tales of villagers and gypsies, forever in the portraits that glared fiercely from the dusky walls of the manor gallery. Tainted with madness, each generation warped and haunted the next, till between them their evil eye withered the fruit of the womb, and ended the line. Vivid, self-willed, fascinating, they had persisted through four ages...
...that the dry Federal Act was but the national and natural expression of that dry local option majority. The people of these same districts are still dry and are not going to change constitution or legislation until they have lost faith in Prohibition as a remedy for the liquor evil. I believe that day will arrive, but I do not think it has arrived...
Still, the legend of a secret order, some said designated by the letter U, persisted. There were those who held that Mother Concepcion was not the evil genius, but merely the organizer of the band, a go-between, acting in the interests of an unknown, higher power...