Voice of the People: "One Wet Night"

I wonder whom those prohibition sharks think they are fooling when they tell of how they succeeded in keeping New York dry New Year’s Eve. If they remained dry themselves they were the only ones to stay that way, . . . The writer chanced to be in the dining room of one of the most prominent hotels that evening, and not once did he see any one trying to hide a bottle. I never saw such flagrant and open violation of laws in my life. Booze flowed like water.
N.C. McCormack

[“Voice of the People,” New York Daily News, 1/3/24, p.15]