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...pre-War liquor business was the whiskey business. In 1913 the U. S. drank 135,000,000 gal. of rye and Bourbon, 5,000,000 gal. of gin, 1,500,000 gal. of Scotch, a trickle of Irish. Rum, wine, brandy, liqueurs cut no figure. The Prohibition liquor business was an alcohol business and liquor consumption rose to at least 200,000,000 gal. a year. No one knows how much the U. S. taste has changed in the era of cocktails, bad Scotch and gin-&-gingenle. That in 1934 the U. S. will drink at least...
National Distillers, The Whiskey Trust of pre-War days was a pretty poor apology for the ogre it was damned for. Most of the business was in the hands of local distillers and nine-tenths of the saloons were controlled by the brewers. The old Distilling Co. slipped steadily until the War. It made $10,000,000 in a final spasm in 1918, changed its name to U. S. Food Products Corp. after Prohibition, finally collapsed...
...playing skill of the leading golfers of today is not much superior to the quality of golf displayed by the outstanding players of the pre-war era when I won my first national title. The difference between these two periods, however, lies in the fact that in 1914 there were only about four or five topnotch golfers. Now, on the other hand, there are over a score of players of championship calibre and this number increases each year...
...portrait to portrait, only one is able to draw phrases of condemnation from his respectfully admiring lips. All good Edwardians will applaud his taste. Author Maurois gives it as his considered opinion that Edward VII was a gentleman, Wilhelm II a bounder. As a sympathetic exhibition of the English pre-War generation The Edwardian Era should be hard to top; it might almost bear that seal so dear to the fronts of better-class London shops: "By Appointment to H. M. the King...
...then be the motto for their conversion. But the undergraduate members of the House can hasten the process of domestication by always acting kindly, and never doing anything that might startle a tutor. Occasional tenders of friendship from the students, such as cocktails, or a snifter or two of pre-war Scotch, would also certainly help to overcome the reluctance of the dons. If only all of them would consider the few of their number who do dine with college men, and the many happy times so spent, perhaps all of them would find the way to that broader...