item: #1 of 7 id: 17417 author: Franklin, Fabian title: What Prohibition Has Done to America date: None words: 21798 flesch: 47 summary: If laws regulating the ordinary personal conduct of individuals are to be entrenched in this way, one of the first conditions of respect for law necessarily falls to the ground. It is true that the individuals whom the Government hunts down by its spies, its arrests, its prosecutions, are men who make a business of breaking the Prohibition law, and most of whom would probably just as readily break other laws if money was to be made by it. keywords: act; amendment; american; case; congress; constitution; eighteenth; government; law; liberty; life; majority; matter; people; power; principle; prohibition; prohibition amendment; prohibition law; state cache: 17417.txt plain text: 17417.txt item: #2 of 7 id: 23208 author: Long, Helen Beecher title: How Janice Day Won date: None words: 67131 flesch: 91 summary: No noisier or more ill-favored crew, Janice Day thought, could ever have been gathered under the roof of the Inn, than she now saw as she pushed open the screen. Janice wondered then--and she wondered afterward--if this unexplained anxiety connected Hopewell Drugg with the dances at the Lake View Inn. CHAPTER V THE BLUEBIRD--FOR HAPPINESS Could it be possible that Janice Day had alighted from Walky Dexter's old carryall at the little grocery store for still another purpose? keywords: aunt; bowman; coins; day; dear; drugg; elder; eyes; father; frank; girl; going; good; haley; haw; home; hopewell; inn; janice; janice day; jason; joe; lem; little; man; marty; massey; money; moore; mrs; narnay; nelson; parraday; polktown; poor; right; rill; school; store; ter; thing; thought; time; uncle; walky; way; woman; young cache: 23208.txt plain text: 23208.txt item: #3 of 7 id: 23338 author: Duff, J. L. title: The Rubaiyat of Ohow Dryyam With Apologies to Omar date: None words: 695 flesch: 85 summary: X Yes, make the most of what we still may spend; The last Drop's lingering Taste may yet transcend Anticipation's Bliss--though we are left Sans Wine, Sans Song, Sans Singer, and--Sans End. With Apologies to_ OMAR [Illustration] _Illustrated by_ BENJAMIN FRANKLIN [_Not of Philadelphia_] _ keywords: coffee; illustration cache: 23338.txt plain text: 23338.txt item: #4 of 7 id: 33920 author: Wightman, Lulu title: The Menace of Prohibition date: None words: 9033 flesch: 46 summary: Prohibition and Sunday Laws They are as determined to secure compulsory Sabbath Day observance laws as they are to obtain Prohibition laws; and wherever and whenever you find a movement for one, you invariably find, sooner or later, a demand for the other. Prohibition laws do not actually prohibit, as every one knows; but they do bring about a state of affairs, upon whatever scale attempted, abhorrent to every right-thinking person. keywords: american; drink; god; good; government; individual; law; laws; liberty; people; power; principle; prohibition; prohibitionists; public cache: 33920.txt plain text: 33920.txt item: #5 of 7 id: 34563 author: McKenzie, Fred A. (Fred Arthur) title: Sober by Act of Parliament date: None words: 50850 flesch: 65 summary: This volume is an attempt to partly answer the question, not by means of elaborate theories or finely drawn inferences, but by a statement of the actual results obtained from liquor laws in various parts of the world. The influence of Puritan immigrants in the middle of the seventeenth century led to the framing of many severe liquor laws. keywords: act; beer; bill; business; cent; compensation; country; dollars; drink; favour; government; houses; increase; law; laws; licences; licensing; liquor; magistrates; maine; majority; measure; men; new; number; party; people; place; police; power; present; prohibition; public; question; sale; saloon; spirits; state; system; temperance; time; trade; traffic; way; years cache: 34563.txt plain text: 34563.txt item: #6 of 7 id: 4249 author: Morley, Christopher title: In the Sweet Dry and Dry date: None words: 26903 flesch: 79 summary: On a rack against the wall he saw a gray uniform coat like that which Mr. Quimbleton had worn in the Balloon office, and a similar gray cap with the silver monogram. So, Mr. Quimbleton, he said, in a harsh and untuned voice, You come comparatively sober. keywords: air; antis; bishop; bishop chuff; bleak; chuff; city; day; editor; eyes; face; father; glass; good; home; horse; know; man; miss; moment; nature; office; pan; parade; people; public; quimbleton; room; round; souse; street; theodolinda; thought; time; virgil; way; white cache: 4249.txt plain text: 4249.txt item: #7 of 7 id: 45530 author: Grove, Harriet Pyne title: The Secret of Steeple Rocks date: None words: 53164 flesch: 90 summary: Little Peggy will try diplomacy. You forget how we watched those gulls and things that were roosting up there, Peggy reminded Sarita in her usual indefinite way at which Sarita always laughed. keywords: bay; beth; bill; boat; camp; dalton; eyrie; father; girls; good; ives; jack; leslie; look; man; mother; peggy; place; right; rocks; sarita; sea; thought; time; tom; tudor; want; way; woods cache: 45530.txt plain text: 45530.txt