Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Free Soul (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). There is nothing on the stage or screen more impressive than a Barrymore indicating degenerate addiction to alcohol-a condition which causes the eyes to pop out and the nostrils to grow, though almost imperceptibly, wider. In this picture, it is Lionel's adroitness at such tricks which enables you to believe in incidents, which, however convincingly they be arranged, are basically somewhat ridiculous. He impersonates Stephen Ashe, a brilliant and bibulous lawyer whose daughter is so much influenced by his eccentric conduct that she sees nothing wrong in having an affair with...
Outside the banquet hall Mayor Porter explained that he joined the church at 13 and has always regarded alcohol as evil. He had scolded his colleagues on the trip across for their drinking. Loudly he announced: "We won't violate the American Constitution no matter where we go and no matter what the rest do.* Yes, we're Dry! We haven't taken one drink since we left the U. S. and we don't intend to touch alcoholic stimulants while in France...
Diluted 6 Boiled Brains, Brain cells contain protein of about the consistency of uncooked egg white. Alcohol, coffee, cocaine and anesthetics coagulate those brain proteins, as boiling hardens eggs. Bromides and thiocyanates thin out the proteins. In certain types of insanity (the manias) the brain apparently becomes permanently boiled. In other types (catatonia) the brain is diluted. Using drugs which give the opposite effect helps the various insane types, and sometimes cures. Lack of oxygen lets the brain get soft. Hence, said Wilder Dwight Bancroft (Cornell) who with his colleague G. Holmes Richter made these observations: "Aviators may become incapacitated...
...training, Alcoholman Adams entered industry via Wall street. He was graduated from Yale in 1904, in 1910 was made a member of Callaway, Fish & Co.. Manhattan. Eight years later he was made Air Reduction's treasurer. Chairman of the company is his older brother, Frederick Baldwin Adams. Alcohol has had no president since Russell R. Brown resigned last January, a fact which adds to Mr. Adams' duties. But he always appears cool, extremely neat, does not look his 50 years. At Yale he was voted "most likely to succeed" by classmates who now also hail as successes...
Although last week's price storm may clear the atmosphere for a long time in the alcohol industry, economic observers have sighted another cloud in the distance. Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. has successfully made various types of alcohol by synthesis of the elements instead of fermentation. In Carbide's annual report last fortnight shareholders read: "The first large commercial plant ever built for the synthetic production of ethanol (ethyl alcohol) was put in operation in the summer of 1930, and the results as to capacity, yields, costs of manufacture and quality of product were more favorable than estimated...