Pop histories describe the saloon as a “symbol” — of masculinity ... One legislator called for prohibition “for the safety and redemption of the people from the social, political and ...

It is used in various combinations as a symbol to mean prohibition. Additionally ... it became a system that assumed to some extent that people could read English. On the other hand, in European ...

As Mencken noted, people have ways of getting around laws they don’t like. I learned about some of the more inventive responses to Prohibition from Dave Hoffman, who runs one of the older ...

Here’s what happened: as Slate‘s recounting of the situation explains it, the whole thing started when Prohibition began in 1920. Despite the new law, unsurprisingly, people kept drinking.