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Word: salooners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gale now was driving. The starboard list increased. In the dining saloon, dishes slid from the tables and chairs toppled over. Officers went about with assuring words. The passengers did not know that a number of cased automobiles had gone crashing through a partition in the hold, toward the starboard side, making matters worse.* They did not know that the stokers were working waist-deep in water, that cabin stewards were bailing there with buckets that might as well have been thimbles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: Vestris | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

Aroused by this and scores of similar editorials the Anti-Saloon League, vigilant, called attention to historical facts which prove that most despatches from New Zealand concerning the referendum, last week, were either poppycock in the first place, or were misinterpreted upon arrival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW ZEALAND: Wet Mistake | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...position in the religious world is that of general secretary of the Young Men's Christian Association. Come Jan. 1 the position will be held by Fred W. Ramsey, moneyed philanthropist of Cleveland (TIME, Nov. 12). Y-Worker Ramsey last week renounced his association with the Anti-Saloon League, giving its political machinations as his reason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ecclesiastical Notes: Nov. 26, 1928 | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...leading wet journal in America" is a title which many a publication would be pleased to accept. Judge or the American Mercury, for example, would love it. Last week, F. Scott McBride, general superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, had this title on the tip of his tongue and, forthwith, he deposited it upon Liberty, prosperous nickel weekly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Liberty | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

Clarence True Wilson, General Secretary of the Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals echoed the Anti-Saloon League's prompt exultation (TIME, Nov. 12) and said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: America Is Dry | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

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