“He’s dry. Recovering they call it. But in times of crisis, he reverts.” “Falls off the wagon?” “I do not know that expression.” “It’s an old Americanism. Early in the twentieth century the Women’s Christian Temperance Union would roll the Temperance Wagon into town, decrying the evils of alcohol and calling on offenders to give it up and get on the wagon. When a sober man went back to drinking, it was called falling off the wagon.”
Is this... an interesting anecdote? And a succinctly told one? In a Left Behind book? Huh, I’m not used to this feeling of having learned an interesting tidbit.
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