Word: purgee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even though the bootlegger and the speakeasy were humorously accepted in the beginning, there is no large class which preserves loyalty to them today. But those whose experience antedates prohibition remember that the saloon, distinguished by the matter of fact consumption of hard liquor by men standing around a counter...
In short, when the child doctors develop more than their usual discrimination between such samples of real life as are set before them, they will end by spilling the sugar coating on the wrong pill. It is possible, to be sure, that the sugaring may be abandoned, and criticism of...
To hope, that American secondary education will purge itself of this hifalutin nonsense, and get back to essentials is to indulge in an optimism entirely unwarranted by its past performance. To hope, however, that it may be forced to undertake at least a partial reformation if the colleges raise a...
Lynn's plague of crickets began in August. Never before had the town heard such nocturnal stridulation, never before had such hosts of shiny, self-assured intruders appeared out of floor chinks, clothes closets, rugs, pantries and cellars. Lynn's fire department, called out to purge the dump...
(3 of 4) of child labor in the cotton textile industry was a smart and inexpensive concession. It deluged the employers with public approval, gave them a better leverage against Labor's extreme demands. Likewise they would be put to no great financial loss because, of the 600,000...