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Funnyman Ade's theme-song in this backward-glancing booklet: "Not wet-not dry-just history." No believer in the saloon's return, he can call up visions of its past with a dry eye, a drily humorous tongue. Though he gives a fair imitation of a man straddling the Prohibition fence, on p. 162 he drops over on the Wet side, admits to membership in the Association Against the 18th Amendment...
...sold to a customer, incriminated itself in fact because its agents not only assured purchasers that "the product would come up to the standard of any pre-War wine." but went around to the customer's house to "service" or bottle the inevitably intoxicating after-product. Judge Otis went backward from result to cause to prove intent...
...Omaha last week was held Nebraska's great State celebration ? Ak-Sar-Ben. Nebraska spelled backward, the name has another significance: Syrian Ak meaning head-of-the family; Arabic Sar, the household; Hebraic Ben, brothers. In 1895 Omaha businessmen organized the Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben, elected each year a king and queen, crowned them at a large ball...
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