Drys

The Aborigines called Drys Bluff '' Taytitikitheeker '', and the Liffey River, which tumbles around it, '' Tellerpanger ''.

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It was my hope that after the alcohol referendum, Asheboro's Courier Tribune would feel a similar sting ... from much-maligned, ill-treated "Drys" canceling subscriptions.

Dr.J's HouseCalls 2008

It was my hope that after the alcohol referendum, Asheboro's Courier Tribune would feel a similar sting ... from much-maligned, ill-treated "Drys" canceling subscriptions.

Dr.J's HouseCalls 2008

As a result, said Louis Steinberger, president of a New Jersey soft-drink trade association, his industry found business “so good under Prohibition that we are determined to offend neither the Wets nor the Drys, and let the fight go merrily on.”

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Fess, “the Driest of the Drys,” who considered anyone who would violate the Volstead Act “an anarchist and . . . an enemy of the government”; Stanley fell to Frederic M.

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Drys were no less convinced of the impossibility of Repeal.

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Drys instead found themselves lining up behind hysterics and haters.

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Drys charged that the very wet representative Fiorello La Guardia of New York presided over appointments in his city, and the all-wet senatorial delegations from saturated New Jersey and soaking Maryland handed out enforcement jobs to the like-minded.

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In wet New Jersey, prosecutors addressed the overload with a modus vivendi that made Willebrandt despair: they would “please the Drys by filing cases,” she recalled years later, “and take care of the Wets by never bringing the cases to trial.”

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“I have always been in the ranks of the Drys,” she told the president, “but sentiment is changing.”

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