Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crew built a flimsy shelter with stones and a piece of fabric stripped from the plane. From clambering over the rocks in thin shoes, the children's feet were bruised and bleeding. New shoes were fashioned from life preserver covers. Soup and coffee were warmed over an alcohol flame. As the second night began the group split a quart of champagne which Mrs. Hutchinson had saved...
...Cocktails make the mouth water ? until the alcohol gets into the blood. Then the saliva tends to cease flowing and the parched throat craves another drink. Whatever good effect the cocktails have as appetizers, the good must soon be lost. For as soon as the blood absorbs the alcohol, digestion is retarded. ? Dr. Andrew Leon Winsor, Cornell University...
Last week three Yale investigators- Drs. Harold Edwin Himwich & Louis Herman Nahum, assisted by N. Rakieten -reported to the International Congress of the Federation of Societies for Experimental Biology at Rome, that alcohol loads the body with lactic acid. If drinking women bear daughters and abstainers bear sons, thence arises a problem in progeny for eugenists and sociologists to resolve...
Died. Edward Kronstrom. Estonia's leading bootlegger; after an automobile accident; in Tallinn, Estonia. During the 13 years of prohibition in Finland he supplied Finns with Estonian potato alcohol...
Finland, which lately went Wet (TIME, Jan. 11, et seq.), seethed with complaint against the State Alcohol Monopoly Co. last week. For one thing the company's stores are closed on Saturday, Sunday, Monday, holidays, on days preceding and following holidays, and every day from 3 p. m. until the following 10 a. m. For another thing the Government, firmly believing that mixed drinks are bad for the stomach, has issued stringent regulations providing that, without special permission, only two kinds of mixed drinks may be sold, the Martini Cocktail and the Manhattan Cocktail. In Italy (though...