Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...office about 11 o'clock each morning. In the long corridors of the Senate Office Building his door can be identified by several Poland Water bottles on its threshold. He drinks four quarts of this a day, no tea, no coffee and, for the last 50 years, no alcohol. His office is staffed entirely with Idahoans. He spends an hour at his correspondence before going to the Senate floor at noon. At 6 p. m. he usually busses home, goes out nowhere socially in the evening, except to an occasional formal function at the White House. Of a fortune...
...Paterson last week New Jersey's Alcohol Beverage Control Commissioner D. Frederick Burnett was asked to pass on the propriety of a barroom Venus that had outraged the sensibilities of a passing minister's wife. After personal inspection, Commissioner Burnett wrote to the complainant: "The painting is mediocre, the color flat, the style eclectic and the subject trite. I am not concerned, however, with artistry or the lack of it. ... There is no reason why places for the consumption of liquor should not be made comfortable and decorative. . . . Pictures, as well as flowers, may brighten a corner. "Obscene...
...Paris Mlle Jeanne Levy explained to the French Academy of Sciences why bicarbonate of soda helps hangover sufferers. Her experiments on alcoholized rats persuaded her that it was not a matter of acid-alkali balance. The carbonated rats breathed faster than normally, and rapid, deep breathing is known to pass alcohol quickly out of the body by way of the lungs...
From the Medical School has come word of the latest contribution of science to the art of good living. Oxygen is threatening the traditional supremacy of alcohol as general "pick-me-up." Drawn into the lungs in quick, deep breaths, it is said to produce effects quite similar to those of alcohol. Those who champion the superiority of alcohol point to the awesome "hang-overs" which they allege result from oxygen "jags." Others, however, deny this allegation and recommend oxygen in preference to the best Scotch...
...Since a rocket is like an upward moving gun firing continuously at the ground, it was natural for the first experimenters to use gunpowder. But powder burned unevenly and it was extremely dangerous. The new technique is to use liquid oxygen and a liquid fuel such as gasoline or alcohol, which do not mix until the rocket is ready to go off. Such a mixture develops energies ten times greater than...