Word: alcoholics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heart-warmed readers with stories about Bandleader Frankie Carle, "little man at the big piano"; Bishop's little mother, "a short, stout woman [with] a beautiful figure"; his two little daughters; an auto accident involving a carload of little victims; and a little spaniel that became addicted to alcohol and died a thought-provoking death...
According to Aldous Huxley's Doors of Perception, a book on the effects of peyote, use of the drug does not cause any sort of aggressive tendencies, as does use of alcohol or narcotics. Instead, it tends to make the user quiet and introspective during the approximately 12 hours it has effect...
...crowd gathered as Cambridge and University police attempted to subdue Gloria and Maria Klemm. Later taken to Cambridge City Hospital, they were reported by hospital officials to be "under the influence of a stimulant other than alcohol...
...ethyl alcohol): wash out the stomach with warm water or sodium bicarbonate, give coffee as a stimulant...
...Bowery (Lionel Rogosin). Alcohol is a religion, and one of its best-known shrines is a street and a district in Lower East Side Manhattan known as the Bowery.* There, in the long shadow of the skyscraping spires of success, the faithful make perpetual libation to failure. Day and night the staggering crowds of petes and winos, toads and loners mill about in a hundred sticks and arms and muskie stands (as the bars on Skid Row are variously described), and keep the dismal watches of the dark night of the soul. A trite and cheaply sensational subject...