Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make use of alcohol or tobacco? A. I consider alcohol damaging to the health of individuals and to collective health. I am not against the moderate use of tobacco, but as far as I am concerned, I never drink hard liquor. I sometimes drink a little wine at official dinners, but since the World War I have never smoked...
...Women's Christian Temperance Union's present $500,000 educational campaign. Last year it distributed a four-reel sound film entitled The Beneficent Reprobate in which appeared no drooling drunks or starving children but a frog named Elmer who passed out in a solution of 5% alcohol. W.C.T.U.'s national president is clever, plump, 65-year-old Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith. An astute politician and public agitator, Mrs. Smith clicks off such anti-liquor statistics as the following: Rejections of insurance applicants for "heavy indulgence" by Northwestern National Life Insurance Co. increased from...
...Just before an examination it is legitimate to take some stimulant. ... It is certain that lump sugar gives almost immediate physical energy. Experiments show that alcohol in any form gives immediate energy followed by a period of depression greater than and lasting twice as long as the stimulation. A highball or cocktail is all right as a stimulant for a ten-minute interview but is worthless in preparing for a two-hour examination...
Ingestion of alcohol is "actually pleasant," Dr. Tracy J. Putnam, of the Medical School, announced in a public lecture at the school yesterday, but it is a "potentially dangerous activity...
Talking about pain and its treatment, he advised that alcohol is in the "hypnotic group" and "induces sleep rather than relieves pain...