Word: libitum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...progressive and essentially moral people will go back to a condition where we will be bone-dry in one State and souse-wet in another, and where churches and schools will elevate one city and gin mills degrade another. States' rights and local option would mean alcohol ad libitum and ad nauseam wherever the whiskey rings held political sway; and that is not a thing to be contemplated in any sort of a sincere temperance program...
...spiritual worries. 4. It is a prayerful life and therefore 'his nerves are at rest.' 5. It is independent ; 'one can rise at any hour one pleases,' fix one's own office hours, take days off ad libitum. 6. It is honored; he and his family are respected and deference is paid to his opinions on all sorts of subjects. 7. It is fairly well paid; minimum net salary about $3,000 in most (Episcopal) dioceses. 8. It has permanence of tenure; clergymen (Episcopal) need not fear losing their appointments except for grave cause...
...sainted ancestors is "death, destruction, poverty, starvation, disease, and anarchy." George Washington, himself a radical and revolutionist, will be summoned from his grave to defend the constitutional guarantees of "life, liberty, justice, security, and opportunity." The American Legion, that distinguished organ of intellectuality, and toleration, will furnish speakers ad libitum for mass meetings...