Word: saloon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pending this light, or illuminant on from some other source, the public is still in the dark as to the extent to which the Anti-Saloon League and other non-governmental organizations influence the government in its work of prohibition. It can draw only one conclusion from the constant struggles which go on between those in authority; the blame must lie to a certain extent with a law which causes such difficulties. It is obvious that any such innovation must at the start create preliminary quarrels; but Prohibition has had time to form, if not complete harmony, at least...
...imaginary Illinois town called Spoon River. This "joke" was the beginning of the Spoon River Anthology. But before Spoon River waxed famous, Poet Masters adopted another pseudonym, "Elmer Chubb," and contributed to Reedy's Mirror many fine-sounding sonnets chanting the praises of William Jennings Bryan, the Anti-Saloon League and Mary Garden. When critics took the Spoon River Anthology (1915) seriously, Poet Masters began to take himself so; to write with purpose about "the American small town in general...
...jury examination, that she was unbiased, whereas she had told friends that she hoped to make matters unhealthy "for old man Ford." She had said that her husband was a plumbing contractor, whereas Mr. Ford's detectives found him to be the operator of a "blind pig" (saloon). According to detectives, she had held mysterious conversations involving palatable sums of money with a Jew named "Kid" Miller at the courthouse...
Professor T. N. Carver will take the platform in support of existing prohibition laws at a serios of meetings of the Anti-Saloon league of America throughout New Jersey late this month...
...great party in this country will really put itself behind this amendment and in a quarter of a century, even so short a time, it has made no progress, it will be time enough to talk about a repeal of the 18th Amendment and going back to the saloon." The Verdict. And so it seems, as mentioned by Dr. Butler in his rebuttal, that the fundamental difference between these two gentlemen is whether or not the 18th Amendment is constitutional. Nine unofficial judges of the debate decided, six to three, that Mr. Borah and the U. S. Supreme Court decision...