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...Hartford City. Ind.. a constable found a fox terrier reeling and lurching along the street. He followed it to the home of one Paul Garwood. whom he arrested for liquor law violation. Paul Garwood's fox terrier ate mash, was an habitual toper...
...heads, Andrew J. Volstead-none of these have withered U. S. alcoholism so effectively as this old-time melodrama. In this revival it is played with complete and proper gravity. The effect of this is often as funny as would be expected; yet, oft and again, some latter-day toper could be heard to gulp and sob, with regret that was not unmixed with remorse. When the little girl cries, "Father, dear father, come home with me now," it took a hardened sophisticate indeed to chuckle at her innocence. However ridiculous was this solemn echo of an ancient and silly...
...Prince ordered a stiff glass of brandy for the sailor, forgetting that under the Swedish "Goteborg System" spirits can be furnished only when solid food is also ordered. The barmaid, mindful of the law, refused to furnish a glass of brandy to the namesake of that mighty toper, Gustavus Adolphus, unless the Prince would order at least a bit of smorbrod...
...their billowing bosoms; no petticoats will swathe their fattish calves; no bushy beards will sway from their chubby chins. No more will they, wearing what-the-gentlemen-will-wear, rush into night clubs. No more will their handsome features peer through a peekhole in a door behind which 200 topers are toping; and no more will their portly bodies enter to find a single toper dizzily sipping ginger beer. No more need wedding guests lifting their bubbling-stemmed glasses to the bride, fear sudden descent of those twain, snatching the twinkling beverage from their lips to impound...
...nose has passed the Rubicund, they said of a toper...