Word: m
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...material-albeit trite-in order to write a book, to father an essay. Deftly, for the New York Times, he took the main points for and against Prohibition, dangled them before the reader's eye, then put them away, told what dangling Prohibition arguments have taught him. Says M. Maurois...
...some 10,000 persons, had profited $100,000 over a single weekend. No liquors were served on board of what the tickets described as "the Dancing and Eating Boat," but the games, said the United Press, were sadly crooked. A Johanna Smith soliloquy, delivered aboard her at 3 a. m. by Louis Wolheim, famed as hard-boiled "Captain Flagg" in What Price Glory? and now a cinemactor, was reported as follows: "The roulette is bad, the poker, twenty-one and chuck-a-lick worse, but the prize albatross these guys hang around a neck is at the craps table...
Delegates representing the Communist Youth Internationale, the Y. M. C. A., the Socialist Youth Internationale and the Jewish World Youth Organization hobnobbed, spoke pieces, debated, passed pacifist resolutions, and drank an informal milk toast to Peace...
Corroborative of all this reactionary gossip is the fact that M. Dzhugashvili, whom Lenin nicknamed "Stalin" ["Steel"], was five times exiled to Siberia by the Tsarist regime for various high crimes and misdemeanors, but he five times escaped. In the war of "Whites" and "Reds" which followed the Russian revolution Comrade "Steel" valiantly defended the town of Tsaritsin, which is now called Stalinsk...
Furthermore, continued good M. Painlevé, the word war ought to be expunged from written or spoken utterance, during peace times, so that in a crisis the very mention of "WAR!!" would shock and arouse public opinion to combat the scourge...