Word: volstead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thing, they must still seem like insect and animal. For another, their story is a problem because actually there is no story. And beyond that, they reflect a very personal, crinkly humorist and constitute a very Volstead Act and vers-libre period piece, the two things meeting in the on-the-wagon Don Marquis who said to a bartender: "I've conquered that goddam willpower of mine. Gimme a double Scotch...
Hangover. In Fresno, Calif., the Federal Government filed suit to collect a $300 fine levied against William Haskett in 1925 for violating the National Prohibition (Volstead...
...stepped off a ship in the Panamanian town of Colón, the tropics got Max Bilgray, a Chicago barkeep done out of a living by the Volstead Act. That was 35 years ago, and Bilgray never even tried to get away. He became, instead, the best-known saloonkeeper in Caribbean latitudes, the boss of Colón's far-famed Tropic Bar and Restaurant. This New Year's, Bilgray's customers will as usual wrap their hands around their holiday glasses of whisky in the bar on the narrow street Colón calls Bottle Alley...
...trying to get this situation under control, something we have been trying to do since prohibition. It is unfortunate, but we are watching suspicious individuals," an angry Judge John Connolly said in court. But what Connolly wanted was not what the College wanted. A poll of undergraduates on the Volstead Act showed that 1159 men were for modifi- cation--light wines and beer--781 were for complete repeal, while only 768 were for enforcement...
...readers. . .The paper was indispensable because of its notices, but I don't believe it was generally read, except by the editors. . . .But when the occasion demanded we turned out a really creditable sheet. . .Of course, there was more of the right sort of conviviality in those pre-Volstead days than there could be late...