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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...publicitiman Allen, the nonretracting cable about Harlotry did not seem worthy of careful guardianship. The cable was broadcast throughout the land. It was Publicitiman Allen's turn to weasle: "I showed it to a newspaperman ... in my personal capacity. ... In some unexplained way it went to our publicity deportment...
...believe in temperance. . . . The mothers and fathers of young men and women throughout this land know the anxiety and worry which has been brought to them by their children's use of liquor in a way which was unknown before prohibition. I believe in reverence for law. Today disregard of the prohibition laws is insidiously sapping respect for all law. I raise, therefore, what I profoundly believe to be a great moral issue involving the righteousness of our national conduct and the protection of our children's morals...
...Throughout the voyage Mr. King and Mr. Kellogg chummed over demitasses in one or two of the five Art Moderne bar rooms, dined in one another's suites, paced the broad sun deck, and appeared to share a taste for those thin little pancakes blazed with spirits in a chafing dish, which are so favorably known as crêpes Suzettes...
...catalog. If Mr. Pancake had wished to be cunning and sly, he might have agreed in advance to use the catalog in this way: Instead of sending the word OCDIV ("Have received no letter from you since . . ."), he might have chosen the fifth word following, OCEHE, and so on throughout the message, the recipient being forewarned of the plan...
...Throughout Scandinavia moose hunting is esteemed the noblest use of fire arms. Accordingly there is drastic enforcement of laws protecting wild moose out of season. But next winter a determined Parliamentary lobby will urge modification of the game law in the interest of the Swedish Match Co., a gigantic monopoly of such wealth and potency that it occasionally makes governmental loans to the smaller states of Europe...