Word: wined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...neither of these institutions has suffered as has Adrian College. There in Michigan the Kappa Kappa Gamma girls have really suffered. For spring and one quart of local indiscretion--evidently not born with them in the consulship of Metellus as was the wiser wine of Horace--have forced from their maiden lips sincere and righteous words of condemnation. Ten live men and a bottle of rum were too much for Kappa Kappa Gamma--and the girls reported to the president--thus...
Wayne B. Wheeler retorted for the Anti-Saloon League: "Do the people want beer and wine? The minority does. The majority does not, or it would secure them by legal and orderly methods. The majority has spoken its mind on this question, not once but repeatedly; not in straw votes but in official ballots, and that majority has rejected the wine and beer plan...
...there was poison in the Locarno Loving Cup! Locarno was only the beginning, but its wine is already badly corked...
...favor of a modification of the Volstead Act to permit the sale of beer and wine because: 1) the effect of prohibition has been to put an end to scientific temperance teaching; 2) it has resulted in increased drinking among young people; 3) it has discouraged the consumption of wine and beer and increased the demand for distilled liquors, which today are mostly poisonous; 4) it has brought about disrespect for all laws; 5) it is class legislation discriminating in favor of the rich; 6) it has increased intemperance...
...money now spent in a futile attempt at enforcement were added to the revenue we might have from beer and wine, and one-tenth of this sum were spent to educate the people in scientific temperance, it would be more effective toward the physical and moral well-being of our people...