Word: liquorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yale the situation is slightly complicated. President Angell attempted to make the Student Council take up the problem of undergraduate drinking, but his maneuver met with unfortunate results. In addressing the freshman class he announced that expulsion would follow the defection of any violation of the rule forbidding liquor in university buildings, and incidentally of the Volstead law. This decisive utterance puts the issue clearly, and no future offender will have just cause for complaint. Indeed, it would seem that the only way in which the collegiate public can be wooed from violating an unpopular ordinance will be by unhesitating...
...Perhaps this tendency reacts to make some few men proud beyond the average of their drunkenness, and so further encourages publicity. Certain it is that daily papers, as a rule, exaggerate the importance of the evil, in their attempt to cater to public taste.--The very fact that illicit liquor is so increasedly expensive prevents much drunkenness--but, it seems, Harvard, Yale and Princeton are regarded as merely one continuous "gold coast...
Governor Pinchot, campaigning against liquor in Pennsylvania, passed the word along to the State Board of Motion Picture Censors. Hereafter, no pictures of drinking parties, hip flasks, violations of the Volstead Act, or pictures ridiculing enforcement agents will appear on the screen in Pennsylvania...
...Prohibitionists who object to modifying the Volstead Act even so much as to let British passenger vessels bring their liquor stores into American ports under seal. (It seems that most prohibitionists will regard this concession as completely outweighed by the authority the Govern-ment will have to prevent rum ships from "hovering" three miles...
...American shipping interests which are vigorously opposed to the measure because it would allow British ships to sell liquor coming and going from U. S. ports?a disadvantage to American ships, which cannot...