2019年10月1日星期二

temperance, rink, speakeasy, Prohibition, temperance hotels

"In the heart of a business section Thomas keeps this speakeasy on the second floor. . . . Drinking starts at 8:30 A.M. when full-bellied Irish contractors drop in for a solidly comforting rye." -Fortune Magazine, 1933

See more Speakeasies of New York in 1933: http://ti.me/1qEPGeU
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Before LIFE magazine even existed, Margaret Bourke-White was shooting for Fortune. See her 1933 story on "Speakeasies of New York" here: http://ti.me/1qEPGeU

(Margaret Bourke-White—The LIFE Picture Collection)

"He even ran a small chain of temperance hotels including one down the hill from St Paul's cathedral."

BBC.CO.UK

The religious roots of the Thomas Cook travel company

張華兄，

dandelion wine 蒲公英酒及其它

At Christmas, Joe brought a jug of red dandelion wine 【a wine made withdandelion petals and other ingredients, commonly citrus fruit.】as his gift (those were Prohibition days).

喬到聖誕節會帶來一罐紅色的蒲公英果酒（那時期禁酒），作為禮物。

蒲公英酒

蒲公英花瓣與柑橘類水果等原料製成的酒

Dandelion wine is presented as a metaphor of summer here, bottled for the winter season of illnesses and wheezing. In Douglas' words: "Dandelion wine. The words were summer on the tongue. The wine was summer caught and stoppered."

Londoners embrace the speakeasy bar culture
London's classiest cocktail lovers are turning to America's Great
Depression for inspiration - but not for the quality of its alcohol.

The DW-WORLD.DE Article
http://newsletter.dw-world.de/re?l=ew99gnI44va89pI8

prohibition of books ：禁書。詳見 index of forbidden books 。

Newly hired workers for Foxconn waited in Zhengzhou, the Chinese city where iPhones are made 24 hours a day.

Zhengzhou Journal

The Escapes of China’s High-Tech Workers

By DAN LEVIN 10:01 PM ET

Young people who work making iPhones and other devices flock to nightclubs and roller rinks during time off, trying to enjoy the present as they strive for a better future.

rink

Syllabification: (rink)

Pronunciation: /riNGk/

noun

(also ice rink or hockey rink)

an enclosed area of ice for skating, ice hockey, or curling, especially one artificially prepared.
(also roller rink) a smooth enclosed floor for roller skating.
a building containing either of these.
(also bowling rink) the strip of a bowling green used for playing a match.
a team in curling or lawn bowling.

Origin:

late Middle English (originally Scots in the sense 'jousting ground'): perhaps originally from Old French renc 'rank'

temperance ： (1) 節德：是控制感官的（過分）貪求，乃四樞德之一。 (2) 節制：言詞及行為上的自我約束，尤指潔身自好、節食、節酒等。
temperance hotels

prohibition

[名]

1 [U]((主に米))酒類の製造販売禁止. ⇒TEMPERANCE 1

2 ((しばしばP-))((米))禁酒法時代（1920-33）.

3 [U]禁止, 差し止め, 禁制；[C]（…の）禁止（法）令((against, on ...)).

pro・hi・bi・tion・àr・y

[形]

pro・hi・bi・tion・ist

[名]((主に米))（酒類製造販売）禁止論者；((P-))禁酒党党員.
speakeasy
(spēk'ē'zē) pronunciation

n., pl., -ies.
A place for the illegal sale and consumption of alcoholic drinks, as during Prohibition in the United States.

美國文化中的禁酒很值得研究，禁酒黨Prohibition Party在1869年已成立。

禁酒期連水果酒都禁。

prohibition

[名]
1 [U]((主に米))酒類の製造販売禁止. ⇒TEMPERANCE 1
2 ((しばしばP-))((米))禁酒法時代（1920-33）.
3 [U]禁止，差し止め，禁制；[C]（…の）禁止（法）令((against, on ...)).

Howard

Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide Constitutional ban on the sale, production, importation, and transportation ofalcoholic beverages that remained in place from 1920 to 1933.(Simon 出生於1916)

dandelion wine was allowed during some periods of prohibition due to its medicinal properties.

My Grampa used to make this (dandelion wine) during the depression (and prohibition).

speakeasy

Pronunciation: /ˈspiːkiːzi/