Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...endorsements their husbands gave fortnight ago (TIME, March 17). From Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, famed feminist, she offered this statement: "In my circle of friends, with two exceptions, I have found no man, woman or child who drinks, brews, smuggles, purchases, sells or distributes any form of alcoholic liquor. These enormous dry circles appear to me to represent the climax of normal civilized growth. Those who still crave alcohol must acquire self-discipline before they attain the civilized standard. For them Prohibition is necessary...
...reassure a timid patron, one of the clerks brandished a copy of TIME, pointing to the paragraph which quoted a chemist's report that one sample from the shop contained 45% alcohol, was nonpoisonous...
...Istanbul, Turkey, toothless Zaro Agha who claimed he was 156 years old, had buried n wives, had never taken a drink of liquor, received an invitation from the American Anti-Alcohol Society to visit the U.S. Onion...
...News has considered well in thus striking at fundamentals rather than debating the point on ethical or idealistic grounds. Even granting the evils of the open saloon, or of alcohol under any disguise, the question still remains, what is feasible--not what ought to be. If it be found that tomorrow's citizens will drink as well as those of today, it is futile to continue under the present veil of public abstinence and private indulgence. There is no doubt but what a widespread consumption of liquor is an economic and social problem, and is in fact well recognized...
...liquor traffic. The Scandinavian countries and Quebec have shown how this can be done wisely and reasonably. Supporters of the amendment care nothing about all this. What they want to do is to force upon everyone and make universal, their own peculiar, personal views concerning the use of alcohol...