Word: pussyfoot
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...Scotch are proverbially slow in realizing a joke and many other matters. But they have now waked up to the insidious inroads of the "Pussyfoot" campaign for prohibition in their bonnie land. Long advertisements with two grinning black cats at top and bottom are confronting the readers of Scottish newspapers demanding "a firm stand for self-determination" and in asking, in bold, black type. "Why not prohibit Pusayfoot?" Scotch blood is running hot over the sheer intemperance of the prohibi...
...COUNTERSIGN -- "Down With Pussyfoot...
...following article William E. Johnson, better known to the public as "Pussyfoot" Johnson, explains the real underlying reasons for the provisions of the Volstead prohibition act which restricts the amount of alcohol contained in salable liquors to one-half of one percent. Mr. Johnson has always been one of the foremost advocates of prohibition, and in the past few months has come into international prominence through his campaign to make England dry and through the attack made upon him by a crowd of English students, who caused the loss of one of his eyes. Returned to this country...
...interesting, however, to note that the British are getting highly agitated over the prospect of prohibition in their own conservative land. This has even run to taking out insurance, called the "pussyfoot policies." What a delightful thought. The home of "Irish," of "Scotch," and of ale--and the freeborn natives scared silly lost they be deprived of their inalienable privilege of getting drunk on Saturday night. Never fear, John Bull! Even if the "dry" Bogey-man does get you, it is only half an hour by air from Dover to Calais. And we venture to suggest that France will remain...
There occurs to one, however, a quaintly instructive thought. The premium of "pussyfoot" insurance is 10 shillings, or half a pound, in every hundred. There may be nothing in figures, but we venture the suggestion that Great Britain is just one-half of one percent dry, and afraid of becoming more so. While we ah, sad to state!--are one one-half of one percent wet. But judging by the election returns, our thirst is as that of the herd of porkers who "rushed headlong into...