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Saturday, December 14, 2013

Secret History Of The War On Public Drinking

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception


The Secret History Of The War On Public Drinking
New Year's Eve was still three weeks away, but by dusk crowds had thronged Times Square. Everyone's eyes were trained on the screen on 42nd Street.

repeal prohibition makeshift
Customers buying beer at a makeshift bar in the streets of Chicago, after the legalization of alcohol on Nov. 10, 1933. (Photo by FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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