Word: synonyms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such, today, is the man whose name has become the synonym for Prohibition by virtue of his having introduced in Congress the statute to enforce the 18th Amendment.* Last week he had something to say after Nominee Smith had suggested changing the statute. Said Andrew J. Volstead: "Every organization against Prohibition will support him. They are too shrewd to be scared by any protestation by the Governor that he is opposed to the saloon. They know that the policy that he has advocated will in the end restore the liquor traffic if the scheme he suggests is adopted...
Bishop Cannon is a quiet, prosy, tenacious little Virginian, a son of the W. C. T. U. His name is a synonym for the militant, reforming, social-working element of the Methodist-Episcopal Church, South. He has long sought to reunite the northern and southern wings of his faith, which split over slavery in 1844. His lifelong ardor for Prohibition is explained, in his own words, as follows...
...lndignant feminists were vexed to discover that Webster's New International sponsors "filly" as a colloquial synonym for "a lively, spirited young girl...
Thinly disguised under the synonym Ottercove, Lord Newspaper-Magnate Beaverbrook appears in Gerhardi's new book, avowedly "pure and unmixed, except for the obvious extravaganza." But Beaver-brook's life has been so rich in extravaganza that the fictitious is not always obvious. Ottercove rides in a Winged Chariot, a comfortable limousine that darts down London streets or rises quietly into the air far above traffic and turmoil. He promises Protegé Dickon (Gerhardi himself in disguise) his greatest evening paper as wedding present, but reneges. He begets a son of Eva, whom he marries...
Married to a synonym for industriousness, Mrs. Herbert Clark Hoover is herself industrious. She spends herself on the Girl Scouts of America, whose national vice president she is. Until April, when she resigned the office, she was also chairman of the Girl Scout board of directors. Miss Sara Louise Arnold, the national Girl Scout president, had been ill and Mrs. Hoover, upon whom President Arnold's work devolved, felt that the chairmanship of the directorate was one job too many...