Word: knockouts
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...When knockout drops in the form of the Volstead Act for enforcement of the Eighteenth Amendment were served up to John Barleycorn last January, the Anti Saloon League thought he had passed out forever form American life. Temporarily he had, but the combination of wood alcohol and the W. C. T. U.'s "Tobacco Next" campaign showed that, like Mark Twain, his obituary notice was "greatly exaggerated...
...Hylan. New York has never been able to keep a reform mayor in office for more than one term; its bursts of idealism are not of long life. But in this critical year, any victory of Tammany would be doubly disastrous, a menace to the public security and a knockout blow to good municipal government...
...each match limited to three rounds of three minutes each, and that the referee should have 1 discretionary power of stopping a match before time was up or before three rounds had been sparred. Moreover the decisions were to be made according to style and points, so that a knockout would not necessarily constitute a victory. The audience was extremely large but conlrolled itself remarkably well; on only one or two occasions was there any hissing and all applause was postponed until after each event...