Word: saloon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...limit of gall for members to stand here and oppose the enforcement of a law we are bound to sustain. It is unfumigated gall for members to stand here and assail a patriotic organization like the Anti-Saloon League...
...Meanwhile, last week in Manhattan, Nicholas Murray ("Miraculous") Butler, president of Columbia University, suggested that the U. S. move its capital to Westerville, Ohio, the birthplace of the Anti-Saloon League. Then Clarence Darrow, dexterous Chicago criminal lawyer, told Manhattanites that it was a "civic duty to violate the Prohibition...
Twelve hundred bankers, businessmen, professors assembled at the Economics Club dinner in Manhattan last week; heard General Lincoln C. Andrews and Wayne B. Wheeler, the paid advocate of the Anti-Saloon League, say that Prohibition is here to stay whether the Wets like it or not. "And what is more," said General Andrews, "it will be hard to get a drink of real beer next season." Laughter and boos from respectable citizens greeted this pronouncement; General Andrews was forced to cut short his speech...
...article in Vanity Fair, "The American Attitude Toward England", is amazing. Mr. Nathan attempts rather successfully to prove that, sentimentally at least, the citizens of the United States are the natural enemies of England and friends of Germany. He cites boyhood memories, all attesting the benevolence of German cooks, saloon keepers and policemen--the era of the latter type being previous to the Irish invasion. The result is that one recalls the Germans as delightful people and the English as the national opponents...
...Prince's efforts to stop this were helpless. Nothing short of the derailment of the coach would have stopped it. ... There was not one man in that saloon who would not have gone gladly to the devil for the Prince that night...