Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...States as far off as Pennsylvania and New York its adherents gathered, setting up quarters in 500 tents. They fed themselves at the camp ground's restaurant or bought their victuals from its stores. They knew better than to wear low-necked dresses or to use tobacco or alcohol. Zealous believers in a God whose Son might return to earth any minute, they prayed, sang, shouted night after night until last week when two husky ministers ducked numbers of them in a big baptismal tank, sent them home for another year...
...Already passed by the House, the Federal Alcohol Control Bill was in the hands of the Senate Finance Committee...
...caused Promoter Curley to become a crony of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, just before his assassination started the War; accidentally annoy Pancho Villa in 1915; act as pallbearer at Theodore Roosevelt's funeral and supply a night's free lodging to Edward of Wales. Promoter Curley drinks no alcohol, insists on driving his own car, married his secretary 15 years ago. His 22-year-old son by his first wife is now a newshawk on the New York American, which frequently derides the validity of Promoter Curley's exhibitions. Convinced by 40 years of experience that this...
...their subject to get places on the convention program, had the following remarks to make: ¶ "Many cases of congenital deafness in children can be traced to drugs administered to their mothers during the pre-natal period. The chief offender seems to be quinine, then the salicylates, then alcohol. Drugs circulating in the blood act upon the auditory nerve more often than any other nerve or special sense."-G. H. Meyers, Tulsa...
...been in the thick of cinematic mergers, deals and syndicates. Only a few months before his appointment, his fellow Commissioner. Ferdinand Pecora. had spread his name upon the record of the Senate Banking & Currency Committee as a member of a big and profitable pool that operated in alcohol stocks in the booming summer of 1933. But the President knew his man better than did anyone else in Washington...