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Word: saloon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...appearance on the street, or afforded them pleasure in secret brutal contests. . . . When we consider the morbid state of mind possessed by those collegians who night after night sat before the footlights of the notorious Soldene, and rose after each act in a body to resort to a liquor saloon near by, we are not surprised at other (perhaps but little lower) exhibitions of a mind thoroughly imbued with an immoral and contaminating influence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Curled Darlings of the Nation" Caught in Act of Flagrant Cruelty--1877 "Chronicle" Deplores Loose Harvard Morals | 2/2/1927 | See Source »

...ways of the Anti-Saloon League and its subordinate organizations must be a never-ending delight to anyone interested in intrigue. Last week in Upsala College, New Jersey, there appeared one Lofton S. Wesley of the Intercollegiate Prohibition Association...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHEELERESQUE | 2/1/1927 | See Source »

...town quite deserted by the members of the Vagabond family. While Freshmen prepare for English A and Mill Si. 1, and even gentle men talk about studying the official scion of that worthy race wanders far afield, stopping now in a Maine lumbering hut, now in a Montreal saloon, and then in a New York night club as the light fancy of the vacationist happens to prompt him. This is all very well and quite as it should be, but in his absence I feel the urge of my former habits strong upon...

Author: By A. L. S., | Title: THE GRIME | 2/1/1927 | See Source »

...long time what was wrong with the Gov'ment. Woodrow's set smile made me very nervous. Cool Cal's expression of smelling Limberger cheese has worried me to the point of despair, but this picture of Brother Wayne Bidwell Wheeler [Attorney for the Anti-Saloon League-TIME, Jan. 10] has caused me to wish that I could consult an honest and fairly reliable Bootlegger. . . . ROBERT W. HAWKINS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 31, 1927 | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

...many cults, though, thank-offerings to God are used for the support of His priests. We harbour an uncomfortable suspicion that a large part of the earnings of the Anti-Saloon League are used not to fight Rum but rather the wolves from the doors of Wayne B. Wheeler and his fellow pioneers of abstinence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SANCTIFIED GOLD BRICKS | 1/19/1927 | See Source »

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