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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They seem to have forgotten, however, the baleful effects of their last great triumph. Most sociologists agree that the origin of the vexing "youth problem" of the 1920's was inextricably linked with Prohibition. Sporting flasks and muttering recipes for bathtub gin, American youth of the 20's indulged in more drinking than any generation before or since. Drunken youths were a common sight on the stairs of every entry in Harvard halls. The nation's youth is not only more temperate now than during Prohibition, but the Army has done an excellent job of keeping order in camp...
Consequences. If all this was true, it meant that the statement had been rank propaganda, not only in the countries of its origin, but also in Russia, where the people were told by their Government that the Allies had guaranteed a second front. If all this was true, then the Churchill and Roosevelt Governments had once again mired themselves in ambiguities. The Rusian public, not told that it might have been fooled by its own propagandists, was evidently prepared to be furious at Britain...
...think of a quicker and better way of doing so. For "Rheinhardt" is the Harvard riot call, and has started such famous rampages as the one in 1936 which wreaked destruction galore on the fair city and fair citizens of Cambridge, not to mention Radcliffe. Its origin, according to the tale, is to be found in the habit of a very lonely young man by that name, who used to go downstairs underneath his window and call up to himself so that his neighbors would think he was popular...
...primitive post office (in a barrel) which still provides free mail delivery. In 1835 they made scientific history: Charles Darwin visited them, found that half of the islands' birds and flowers had no counterparts elsewhere, gathered data that later gave him the idea for his Origin of Species...
...Manx brownie) from the Isle of Man has a diminutive Lincolnshire cousin, Robin-Round-Cap. These little folk are clumsy, hairy and industrious but, like pixies of more personal charm, have often been known to thresh a barnful of wheat for people they liked. The flying fomorians, of Celtic origin, have wings like the gremlins, but are larger and warlike. The hordes of pigmies which in the 2nd Century visited Fergus MacLeite, King of Ulster, are believed to be the ancestors of Swift's Lilliputians, and possibly the model for the pixyish 14th-Century Robin Hood...