Word: soberness
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...states have instituted rationing. Thus the per capita quota runs from a pint a week in Virginia to as much as two quarts a day in Vermont. But, on a national basis, liquormen figure that U.S. stocks of domestic whiskeys (404,000,000 gal.) will last for about three sober, 70% years, leave another year's supply aging for the peace...
...smaller distilleries, and Deputy Price Administrator J. Kenneth Galbraith estimated that the big fry control 80% of all the bulk whiskey in the U.S. Topers had one safe bet: for the duration liquor will be both scarce and expensive. But they had one nip of comfort-the sober outlook for drinkers makes the outlook for Old Man Prohibition bleak...
...most interesting sides, though, are "I'm Sober Now" and "Jump Steady Blues" for the evocation of the gin mill atmosphere. PT acts out whole scenes while he's playing, taking all the parts, and the result is one of the most amazing jazz records ever made. On these sides he plays straight barrelhouse piano, miles ahead of the crabbed, primitive style of Jimmie Yancey and the ragtime of Jelly Roll Morton, proving that if he had lived, Pine Top might have revolutionized jazz piano. Even so, his style is completely up to date, regardless of the date...
...Sober-minded Democrats in Washington admit that the President is running like a jack rabbit for a fourth term, and that there is no way to stop him. Last week one of the highest-ranking New Dealers told TIME that there is no longer any doubt: the President will have things neatly and exactly arranged for a fourth term nomination, will be nominated and reelected. This New Dealer foresaw a whale of a fight, but certain victory...
...teetotalers, and to some other gloomy characters, the British pub is a sink of iniquity, the repository of much that is ingrown, insular and debilitating in British life. For sober students of drinking and human nature, it is the haven and repository of much that is good and warm ing in British life, an important and perhaps the most democratic institution in Britain...