1923 Harry of Ciro's ABC of mixing cocktails (second impression)

to law, and contempt for law have greatly increased and arc still increasing in this countrj' is not to be doubted. . . . It is rather a sorry outcome of our century and a half of existence as an independent nation, proclaiming to the world the discovery of the best possible method of providing for liberty under law, that we should now be pointed to as the law-breaking nation par excellence."