there were laws requiring a 1am closing time on Sunday night. "One waiter was arrested and charged with serving ... a bottle of wine at 1:40 o'clock in the morning."pic.twitter.com/XSPODmJd9m
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Apparently, in 1917, New Year's eve fell on a Sunday (GASP!), so the city tried to hold its celebrations on ... the day after? The plan left hotel men 'dejected.' https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1917/01/02/118127355.html?pageNumber=1 …pic.twitter.com/sAIk90HBYz
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(Motion to return our official written style to "1:40 o'clock")
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Anyway, the day-after-new-year celebration wasn't a total losspic.twitter.com/xXvuYVZKFV
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This might be one of the best New York Times ledes ever: a bootlegger in 1922 arguing that you don't have to make a no-drinking New Year's resolution because drinking is illegal, so it's ok to keep drinking. https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1922/12/31/102912402.html?pageNumber=32 …pic.twitter.com/2zGcDeTwkH
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"it was the spirit of adventure, the gamble, the speculation of it that used to appeal to us. The resolution didn't matter, it was the sporting chance involved in the question, 'can I keep it,' that held out that lure."
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in 1922, a man in Newark quit the school board because he was sure staying on it would force him to break his new year's resolution not to swear so muchpic.twitter.com/0PUafrHdX6
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In 1926, the daughter of the president of Columbia urged women to take a vow against feminism as their new year's resolutionpic.twitter.com/cwxAOkk2AI
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in 1934, Mary Pickford resolved for the new year to "treat herself as well as she treats the persons she likes best," and urged housewives to be more "reasonably selfish."pic.twitter.com/5Vdp1PRjXY
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5 years later, Eleanor's New Year's resolution had changed tack a bitpic.twitter.com/mTZgeeiLWL
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(if you haven't put it together, I am randomly searching the NYT archives for New Year's resolutions and pulling out my favorites.)
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