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1909. What other practical nations call movements, we characteristically call “waves.” The fight against graft in municipal politics was a wave; prohibition is a wave; the direct primary is a wave; the reaction against the impure drama is a wave; the Teddy bear was a wave; and the present-day passion for living in bungalows is a wave.—N.Y. Evening Post, July 6.
1911. That the production of distilled spirits in this country during the fiscal year which ended on June 30 last was the greatest on record, must be a disappointing showing to those who have felt great confidence in the efficacy of the prohibition and anti-saloon wave which swept over the country a few years back.—Id., Nov. 27, p. 4/2.
