Volsteadn.
/ˈvɒlstɪd/ Used attributively to designate the legislation enforcing prohibition (see prohibition n. 4b) in the United States or the period (1920–33) during which prohibition was in force.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > abstention from drinking > [adjective] > total abstinence > prohibition
dry1887
bone-dry1905
alcohol-free1913
Volstead1920
1920 Current Opinion Apr. 451/1 The Wet leaders..will wage a campaign for the election..of Congressmen favorable to changes in the Volstead Act.
1935 A. G. Macdonell Visit to Amer. xiii. 229 The Volstead amendment led to some pretty confusion, but the repeal of the Volstead amendment seems to be almost worse.
1949 Chicago Tribune 8 Sept. 22/2 In the Volstead era, corrupt politicians talked to exactly the same effect with the leaders of the Anti-Saloon league.
1977 H. Fast Immigrants iii. 179 The Congress of the United States was overriding President Wilson's veto of the Volstead Act and making Prohibition the law of the land.
1977 H. Fast Immigrants iii. 203 This is the finest wine country in the world, and some day the world is going to discover that—if we ever rid ourselves of this lousy Volstead thing.
Derivatives
ˈVolsteadism n. the policy of the Volstead Act; prohibition.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > abstention from drinking > [noun] > prohibition > prohibitionism
prohibitionism1882
pussyfooting1902
pussyfootism1916
Volsteadism1920
1920 Harvey's Weekly 27 Mar. 11/2 The Republicans would have to stand for Volsteadism or incur defeat.
1947 Chicago Daily News 23 Jan. 14/1 Volstead didn't write the law. Nor was he an apostle of the fanaticism called ‘Volsteadism’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2018).
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