Word: saloon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rivers of assorted drinkables gurgled down his gullet. When drunk, his behavior was colorful. Vainglorious, he would swagger the streets, throwing handfuls of small silver to the ragamuffins following at heel. Sentimental, he would warble Go Tell Aunt Rhody or Oh White, White Moon. Belligerent, he would ravish a saloon, break all the glassware, splendidly pay for it next day. He put on flesh...
...weight of the evidence, however, is against an attempt to make prohibitionists of them. If the anti-Saloon League is to be believed, all of them would have died long ago if they had sampled their own wares. Furthermore, bootleggers are already earnest advocates of prohibition; because their whole trade is dependent on a federal enforcement which is neither too strict nor too lenient...
...Coolidge received as callers: William J. Bryan?to say he was interested in promoting world peace; Wayne B. Wheeler, Anti-Saloon League Leader?to say that Prohibition Commissioner Haynes had done well in office considering the difficulties he encountered; the gymnastic team of the Springfield (Mass.) Y.M.C.A. College, returning from a seven week, 11,000 mile exhibition tour through the Southwest and Mexico...
...flea is represented by the type of thing expressed in the following letter, which was sent out last week to scores of reputable citizens in one of the larger cities of the country by a firm situate in one of the best streets: This is not front the Anti-Saloon League nor from a prohibition crank. It is from analysts who know their subjects...
Died. James Patrick ("Big Jim") O'Leary, 60, "Prince of Gamblers"; in Chicago, of heart disease. He was the son of the "Mrs. O'Leary" whose famed cow kicked over the lantern that started the Chicago fire of 1871. At his palatial combination saloon and gambling house he took bets on anything from horses to the weather, until Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis (the now "Baseball Tsar") ordered it closed...