Word: liquorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Desires: To see if the U. S. feels about Prohibition as it felt last decade. If feeling has changed, to repeal the 18th Amendment and deal with "the liquor question," which the A. A. P. A. admits exists, in some other way, perhaps by the "Quebec Plan" (government dispensaries...
...implied in a vote for a repeal. This, with the exertion of the newspapers might very well blow the Prohibition question into enough of a bugaboo to arouse voters; for it is seen that even the loosely iconoclastic like Mencken who go berserk on the mention of liquor and moral censorship, can attract audiences until their hearers grow tired with the yelling on these questions that never before have been of political importance...
...know, furthermore, perfectly well that if the party machinery is against enforcement, it cannot be enforced. "I do not want to be misunderstood in this fight, although it seems difficult not to be misunderstood. I am against the liquor traffic. In that respect I take my Republicanism direct from Abraham Lincoln, who denounced the liquor traffic as the second curse of mankind...
...think more of constitutional government than I do about the liquor traffic. I think that democratic institutions are passing through as severe a test as they have ever had or will have. Fascism on the one hand, communism on the other and a vast drove of timid souls in between make a pretty hard fight for democratic institutions...
...Yorkers, Inc., Abercrombie & Fitch Co., Mark Cross Co., Saks & Co., Fifth Ave., Lewis & Conger, Ovington's, B. Altman, Elizabeth Pusey) at a Chicago store (Peacock) and at a Los Angeles store (Barker Bros.). It was a three-wheeled barrow, of tea-wagon appearance, containing lock compartments for liquor, an ice receptacle, niches for bottles, glasses, ice-picks, opener, knives, spoons; a cedar drawer for 500 cigars; a tray; an oak board for slicing fruit; a musical attachment designed to play certain tunes. This machine-the "Baker Bar-ette"-is usually made with a red-lacquer finish. Some are equipped...