Quotation by Laurence Stallings

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Don't you know there are 200 temperance women in this county who control 200 votes. Why does a woman work for temperance? Because she's tired of liftin' that besotted mate of hers off the floor every Saturday night and puttin' him on the sofa so he won't catch cold. Tonight we're for temperance. Help yourself to them cloves and chew them, chew them hard. We're goin' to that festival tonight smelling like a hot mince pie.

Laurence Stallings

Laurence Stallings (1894–1968), U.S. screenwriter, and John Ford. Judge William Pitman Priest (Charles Winniger), The Sun Shines Bright, on election eve, advising his friends to maintain the pretense of being sober, to make a good impression on the women at the town strawberry festival (1953).

Based on stories "The Sun Shines Bright," "The Mob from Massac," "The Lord Provides" by Irwin S. Cobb.

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