Word: liquorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...History of Liquor", from the time when Noah planted a vineyard to the controversy over the eighteenth amendment, is the title of a collection of books, pamphlets, and drawings which has recently been presented to the Baker Library of the Business School...
...deathrate from alcoholism,* the only index to per capita drinking when the sale of liquor is illegal, was at its lowest point in 1920, the year after national prohibition became effective...
...Pearl drew a psychological conclusion: the people of the U. S. want both things at once, a Prohibition law and liquor...
...Pearl made a psychological explanation: "To call our people names, and accuse them of hypocrisy because they want both prohibitory legislation and liquor too is the favorite attitude of Europeans generally, and of a good many persons in this country as well. But . . . the American psychology regarding Prohibition is basically only a form of the sort of make-believe and dressing-up that every child indulges in. No one would think of calling a child a hypocrite because he dresses up as a cowboy or a policeman. Other peoples are, in other respects, just as childlike...
...York World reported last summer that liquor had been sold over the bar of Dr. Straton's hotel; this caused Dr. Straton to start a $200,000 libel action against the World. The case has not yet been settled...