Word: prohibition
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strutted, with an excess of vigor, around their tiny hutches. The air, dark with smoke, lacking the dusty sweetness of a barnyard, was filled with the shrill, silly clamor of their voices. Roosters, supercharged with masculinity, cried loudly and beat their wings against bars which were barely sufficient to prohibit a shocking orgy and debauch. Hens cooed and ruffled their clipped, soft wings. Doves moaned, flattened soft bodies against the damp floor of their roosting place...
Liquor being a not illegal commodity in parts of Canada, Canadian government officials cannot directly prohibit exporters from shipping their wares to the U. S. When 30 liquor docks were closed last week at Windsor, Ont., the reason given was not the well known fact that many a shipment consigned to "Cuba," "Mexico." "Nassau," etc. etc., was going straight across the water to Detroit. But National Revenue Minister Euler represented that Canada's export tax on liquor was being consistently evaded. Chairman Sir Henry Drayton of the Ontario (provincial) Liquor Control Board, also complained that export liquor was being...
...States which wish to do so prohibit. ... I don't drink myself at all, and I don't oppose Prohibition on the ground that it limits the liberties of the people. I think that in the interest of the community, and of the man who can not resist the temptation to drink in excess, if he has the opportunity to drink at all, other citizens in the community may be properly asked and compelled to give up drinking, although that drinking may do them no injury. My objections to Prohibition are as I have stated them above...
...agreed that, because international trade would not be greatly affected, Czechoslovakia may permanently reserve the right to prohibit or restrict the exportation of quartzite; Portugal, the exportation of pine resin...
That "sport" is "work" within the meaning of the Lord God is as clear to Queen Wilhelmina as the fact that the Allah of the Mohammedans undoubtedly meant to prohibit "spirituous liquors" when he prohibited "wine." The mere fact that neither "sport," in the modern sense, nor "spirituous liquors" had been invented when the Gods uttered their respective prohibitions is immaterial...