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Temperance Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) organization founded to help alcoholics (1934). [Am. Culture: EB, I: 448] provides protection against drunkenness; February birthstone. [Gem Symbolism: Kunz, 58–59] successfully led drive for Prohibition (1910s). [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 357] enjoined his people to abstinence. [O.T.: Jeremiah 35: 5–11] (Amelia Moore) (1846–1911) hatchet-wielding saloon wrecker. [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 253] (1919–1933) period when selling and consuming liquor was against the law. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 2710]
pastoral people who abstained from all wines. [O.T.: Jeremiah 35:5–19] consecrated to God in abstinence. [O.T.: Judges 13:4–5] 18th Amendment, passed by Congress to enforce Prohibition (1919). [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 286] society of militant housewives against drinking (20th century). [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 357] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| --We came on the cars from Temperance yesterday, slept all night at my cousin's, and drove from her house--eight miles it is--this morning. Now, these here fellows, my boy, are a-goin' to-night to get up the monthly meetin' o' the Brick Lane Branch o' the United Grand Junction Ebenezer Temperance Association. Meno is very ready to admit that justice is virtue: 'Would you say virtue or a virtue, for there are other virtues, such as courage, temperance, and the like; just as round is a figure, and black and white are colours, and yet there are other figures and other colours. |
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