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PROHIBITION DI AMERIKA SERIKAT

  MENILIK PERGERAKAN WANITA MELAWAN ALKOHOLISME DI AMERIKA SERIKAT     Anggermeyla Berlian   AMERIKA SERIKAT DALAM KEGEMBIRAAN ALKOHOL Ada kalanya negeri adikuasa yang makmur dan indah bergulat dengan suatu benda yang digunakan dalam Sakramen Perjamuan Kudus, yaitu alkohol. Dalam Ensiklopedia Amerika Kuno (1830) dijelaskan mengenai kebiasaan minum-minum sebelum era kemerdekaan sebagai berikut : A fashion at the South was to take a glass of whiskey, flavored with mint, soon after waking… At eleven o’clock, while mixtures, under various peculiar names - sling, toddy, flip - solicited the appetite at the bar of the common tippling-shop, the offices of professional neb and counting rooms dismissed their occupants for a half hour to regale themselves at a neighbor’s or a coffee-house with punch… At the dinner hour… whiskey and water curiously flavored with apples, or brandly and water, introduced at feast; whiskey or brandy and water helped it through; and whiskey or br...