prohibitionist

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Prohibitionist papers provided clues along with old ads for ‘new and novel entertainment: talking motion pictures.”

From Washington Times • Mar. 23, 2018

In the meantime, many of the Prohibitionist leaders expressed an earnest—and characteristically Progressive—desire to help those who seemed, to them, insufficiently progressed.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 21, 2015

In 1932, Hoover, the reluctant Prohibitionist, was defeated by Franklin D. Roosevelt, a reluctant anti-Prohibitionist; a year later, the country repealed the Eighteenth Amendment.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 21, 2015

But it was her student days, not her anti-saloon activities, that brought Prohibitionist Willard into the news last week.

From Time Magazine Archive

We don't like a lean and sour-visaged Prohibitionist making a fuss over us, feeling our pulse, taking our temperature, smoothing our brow.

From Nonsenseorship by Putnam, G. G.