Word: volsteadian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Borah, oratorically extraordinary gentleman from Idaho, a fortnight ago tramped southward to Augusta, Georgia, heart of the Southern "Dry" belt; there, naturally, made a speech Volsteadian in tone. He deplored "nullification" of the 18th Amendment, did Mr. Borah. Yet, had it not been for the lazy hot sun, many a disenfranchised Negro might have scented an anomaly, might have pointed out to the Senator that here, indeed, was where pride-wounded "Colonels" first conceived the effective thought of "nullification." Others, not Negroes, have made this fact clear...
...modification or repeal except in a few southern states and in Kansas. Kansas was dry--incomparably drier than any other state in the Union. The natural query is, what manner of commonwealth is this that, alone among its fellows outside the stolid South, still stands so stubbornly beside its Volsteadian guns...
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