Word: shorn
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There will probably be a period during which prohibition will not be absolute and alcohol will not be wholly shorn of its powers. It is possible that the members of the clubs have provided against an immediately dry future. There may be for a time club dinners that will be reminiscent of the past. But the skeleton will be obtrusive at the feast. No one who drinks now can be happy; no one who lives on his capital can be happy. Enjoyment of alcoholic drink depends on its being ungrudging. The days are gone when a man will offer...
...this afternoon. Time was when this event was the occasion of the gayest scene of the year along the Boston river front; in those days each class hired some kind of a craft which was suitably decorated, on which the greatest enthusiasm prevailed. Though the races are today shorn of some of their external glory their real value remains. They are still a part of the broadening tendency toward general athletics...