Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...East Orange, Vt., New Year's Eve celebrants stripped Marvin Follansbee, 27, cut off his hair, painted him with red and yellow stripes. Next morning the coroner did not know whether Follansbee's death was caused by the alcohol in his brain or the paint in his pores...
Unlike Sherlock Holmes, who had recourse to narcotics, Detective Nick Charles depends solely upon alcohol. In After the Thin Man, he sets a new record for deductive drinking. Fortified by a few nips aboard the train, he and his wife arrive in San Francisco to find a party already in progress at their house. After a few nips more, they go to a family dinner, where Nick drinks the other male guests into a stupor. When it turns out that the scapegrace husband of Mrs. Charles's pretty cousin (Elissa Landi) has mysteriously disappeared, Nick Charles finds...
...company. In that year the heirs turned it over to the University of Rochester. In 1930 the old building was ruined by fire and Ward's moved into a four-story brick building which it rented from American Chicle Co. Among the pungent odors of formaldehyde and methyl alcohol, the smell of Chiclet chewing gum is still discernible. Most of the building is drab and dirty-windowed, but the administration offices, including that of President Dean L. Gamble, are cheerfully decorated in brown and tan. Bulky minerals and meteorites are kept in the cellar bones in bins...
...wife is president of New York's W. C.T. U. Therefore he needed little preparation when he started out on his campaign on a platform opposing inflation, lotteries, Communism, crime, high taxes, war, and, above all, alcohol. Since he left his Manhattan home in June, he has traveled 25,000 miles in Pullman cars, visited 31 States, has only let five days pass without at least one speech. In some 300 addresses he has driven home his point that the Prohibition Party is the only party that "recognizes God as the source of good Government...
...American Business Men's Research Foundation graph (TIME, Oct. 12, p. 62-63) referred to by TIME as indicative of a major relationship between auto fatalities and consumption of alcohol leads me to wonder if you have swallowed that particular piece of statistical skulduggery. The inference drawn by the above mentioned foundation is, of course, unwarranted on the basis of the evidence they present...