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1773 London Mag. Aug. 378/1 We have a prohibition law; but by practice it is evaded and rendered ineffectual.

1851 Househ. Words 25 Jan. 417/1 I do not advocate the prohibition-principle.

1877 Harper's Mag. Dec. 146/1 R. Pitman..Prohibition candidate for Governor.

1877 Harper's Mag. Dec. 146/2 He argues..the prohibition system a success.

1897 Westm. Gaz. 31 Dec. 2/2 He carefully studied the Prohibition Question while there... In one Prohibition town he was taken to various hotels by the Dominion M.P...who..was elected on the Prohibition card—for the purpose of having a whisky-and-soda.

1907 Westm. Gaz. 11 Dec. 8/1 The outcome of this foolish (almost wicked) retention of the Prohibition Order is that now an American Meat Trust is able to name the price that must be paid for meat by poor British consumers.

1949 Daily Oklahoman 13 Feb. d.2/2 A petition will be circulated calling for repeal of the state's liquor prohibition law.

1968 N.Y. City (Michelin Tire Corp.) 32 The area later became famous as the ‘speakeasy belt’ during the Prohibition era.

1984 New Yorker 20 Feb. 78/2 Today, with the wisdom of hindsight, we may equally lament the great opportunity that was missed when the United States rejected the Soviet ‘prohibition treaty’.

2004 Newport Life Mag. Summer 39 A favorite of the Prohibition era was the ‘nip stick’—a cane with a hidden flask for beverages.