Word: saloon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still the Wet cry of "sumptuary legislation," a dozen potent Drys representing the Anti-Saloon League, the Women's Christian Temperance Union, the Methodist Episcopal Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals and the Committee of One Thousand last week issued a joint declaration of policy through the Christian Herald...
...drinkers, says Seldes, had forgotten how to drink long before it became illegal to remember. Now "professional" drinkers have become as fanatical as Drys. "Until we learn how to drink at home with considerably more technical skill and social grace than we now possess, we will need the saloon as much as ever." Says Seldes: 100,000 speakeasies flourish in the U. S., not to satisfy the national taste for liquor but "our pride and a childish illusion of wickedness, a 'tawdry romanticism." No friend to Prohibition, Moderate Drinker Seldes believes in freedom to drink when you want...
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...Author. Jean Cocteau lives in Paris where he likes to play at being an habitual invalid, draw a little, used to mix drinks for himself and friends in his own saloon. Le Boeuf sur le Toit. Not long ago, his fancy led him to embrace Catholicism. He is also fond of having his ascetic hands photographed as he lies in bed. Other works: Grand Ecart, Thomas the Impostor, A Call to Order...
...used to ride past their destinations, beguiled by the vocal harmony which the trolley's crew furnished. August Van Glove was the motorman, Joseph Thuma Schenck the conductor. Later they bolstered their act with a piano which Conductor Schenck played; entertained professionally in the back room of a saloon, then in smalltime vaudeville houses (their first appearance was, perforce, in overalls), then in big-time vaudeville theatres as "Van & Schenck-the pennant-winning battery of songland." Favorite Van & Schenck numbers: "When You're a Long, Long Way from Home," "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows...