Press: Phantom Cocktails

Liquor and even cigarets are still questionable commodities to the Saturday Evening Post. Rarely does Editor George Horace Lorimer permit an illustration of a woman smoking, practically never of a man or woman drinking. Last week's Satevepost was an exception. One article had pictures of a man beaming over a champagne goblet, a girl toying with an aperitif; but the text pointed a moral. Entitled "I Fell Off the Water Wagon," it was the testimonial of a middle-aged man who reached the final conclusion that drink is a curse. Apparently that was...

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