Word: saloon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...consolation, though it, too, is depressing is that Yankee hypocrisy would be certain to allow us our books via the medium of a bootlegger. In that part of the world visible to the average Harvard student, Prohibition did little more than take drinking from the corner saloon and put it in the home, the college dormitories, and exclusive little clubs now known as speakeasies. True, it did slightly cheapen the quality and slightly increase the cost of liquor. Our libraries may someday be filled by methods not unlike the way we now fill our cellars...
Francis Scott McBride, bespectacled, square-jawed, rumple-haired alumnus of Muskingum College, is a person of no small importance. As Superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League of America he inhabits and marches in the boots of the late, mighty Wayne Bidwell Wheeler.* Last week he marched into New Jersey to help the Anti-Saloon League of that State elect a superintendent. Addressing his local brethren he referred to William J. Calhoun, who only a few days before had been made Federal Prohibition Administrator for New Jersey, as follows...
...home town," Westerville, birth- place of the Anti-Saloon League, was visited promptly by reporters from Columbus, Ohio. They reported that recently for the first time in history the village council had had to appropriate ($500) for prohibition enforcement, that malt and hops were on sale, that the students of Otterbein College, Westerville's seat of learning, could tell of at least two Columbus bootleggers "with a rural trade" who visit Westerville regularly...
Prohibitionist though he was, Kvale not only called the Volstead Act "the greatest tragedy ever witnessed by civilization," but denounced Anti-Saloon Leaguers as "cheap ward politicians wearing the mask of Prohibition." He condemned Prohibition agents who hastily shot down a Minnesotan suspected "of being a bootlegger." (TIME, June...
...quite agree with Subscriber Connolley in what he has to say with regard to TIME'S cinema reviews. They sound to me as though they were written by a moron or by some old crab who should be working for the Anti-Saloon League...