Word: homeness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have a convivial cup. Long and loudly have urbanites protested this disparity of Prohibition. Last week city men envied country men when Prohibition Commissioner James M. Doran issued to his agents this edict: "The National Prohibition act authorizes . . . unrestricted manufacture of non-intoxicating cider and fruit juice in the home. . . . Conditions: . . . 1) it shall be non-intoxicating in fact; 2) it shall be exclusively for home use . . . 3) it shall not be sold or delivered except with a vinegar permit. . . . Nor will you interfere with such manufacture and use in the home...
...without benefit from the Doran order. Well they know that they can share with wine-making husbandmen the "exceptions" under Prohibition. From many a company they can buy barrels of perfectly legal grape juice which, unless an act of God is carefully averted, will ferment in the city home to make a cup no less convivial than that quaffed on the farm. Urban winemakers were quick to interpret the Doran order as an added legal protection to their enterprise...
...alone for the goodwill that Singer Jolson will bring to aid them in selling his records, but mainly for the knowledge of the amusement line and the shrewd sense of business that Singer Jolson has shown. For contrary to the belief that all actors end in an Actors' Home, he has prospered financially and his operations in Warner Bros. (Vitaphone) stock alone are said to have made him a fortune...
Last June there was graduated from the East Orange, N. J., High School one John Osborn Reid, 19, interested in science and planning to go to the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale. Often he had driven by the Edison Laboratories, only three miles from his home, wondered what the insides were like, speculated on the personality of Inventor Edison whom he had seen only in the cinemas. Last week he and 48 other boys, specially chosen as the "brightest" from each state and the District of Columbia, inspected the famed laboratory, met Thomas Alva Edison, matched knowledge in what...
Still ignorant of the winner, the "49ers" went to Coney Island that night, and then on a sight-seeing trip through Manhattan. The Edison staff, cautious gentlemen, advised leaving watches at home and taking no more than...