Word: lasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Window blinds were reeled down, lights were snapped out in the crowded courtroom of a Philadelphia Quarter Sessions Court one day last week. On an improvised cinema screen flashed the images of a detective, a stenographer, a glum young man. The young man's lips moved. A loudspeaker blatted: "This summer I robbed 25 homes on my milk route. The loot I got was worth $10,000. . . I have not been beaten nor forced to make this confession...
Prime enforcer of Prohibition is Commissioner James M. Doran. Proudly his wife tells friends that she "brings up the reinforcements." Last week she marshaled a platoon of reinforcements in the form of recipes for nonalcoholic cocktails. She had prepared a Book of Juices to meet the onslaught of the "winter social season just ahead." She announced a few of her recipes in advance. Explained Mrs. Doran: "Prohibition took something away from the American people, but we can give them something just as good-a cocktail that satisfies but does not inebriate. . . . Mince pie is delicious without brandy-if made properly...
Politically dry as dry can be is Nebraska where every aid is given to the enforcement of Prohibition. Startling was last week's news that U. S. District Judge Joseph William Woodrough at Omaha had placed a large and. to Nebraska, alien obstacle in the path of U. S. dry agents by his ruling that they cannot legally search a domicile without warrant even though they see, hear and smell material evidence...
Explorers are flag planters. But Explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd in his flight across unexplored Antarctica to the South Pole last week dropped no emblems of U. S. sovereignty (see page 64). Domain over the ice-locked continent at Earth's bleak nadir seemed likely to be determined not by fur-clad flag-planters but by silk-hatted diplomats...
...Last month, after a year's delay, the State Department acknowledged receipt of the note, stated that there was no need for comment at this time. Implication of the U. S. note was that there would be time enough for Antarctic pie-cutting after the Byrd explorations were completed...