Word: alcoholics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suffer such humiliations. But it is insecurely successful men like Hugh Walpole-craving dignity as others crave alcohol-who not only suffer most from them but seem always to invite them. Walpole, it might be supposed, had every reason to be cocky and self-confident. He belonged to one of Britain's best-known families. His 50-odd books (Fortitude, The Dark Forest, Rogue Berries) brought him fame, Rolls-Royces, a flat in Piccadilly, a knighthood, a superb collection of paintings, a library of first editions and valuable manuscripts. He received compliments even from Queen Mary...
...Though veterans report more experience with alcohol than nonveterans, they settle down to the same drinking habits. The Yale survey will pay its biggest dividends in years to come, when the students are re-polled every five years to find out the effect of alcohol, if any, on their lives. Researcher Straus is so young (29) that he expects to be around for quite a few rounds of quizzes...
...decided it was high time to explain the discrepancy between his white moustache and black hair and to deny again the rumor that his hair is dyed. Said he: "My moustache is white from kissing the girls. But my hair is true black. Anyone is welcome to come with alcohol, with shampoo, with anything, to wash my hair and prove...
...Mariemont, Ohio one day last week, Mayor E. Boyd Jordan mounted the 100-ft. tower of the town carillon and entered the tiny clavier room. He loosened his collar and tie, rolled up his sleeves. He rubbed his arms and hands with alcohol, fastened leather guards over his hands, sat down at the keyboard and started pummeling its projecting levers, stamping on its pedals. Above him in the belfry, 23 tuned bells chimed out a program of folk tunes, hymns, a classical number or two. The annual congress of the Guild of Carillonneurs of North America was in town...
This week the month of Ramadan ended. Weak and often irritable from their long fasting, the world's Moslems once more began to eat, smoke and drink, much like the rest of their fellow men. (The Koran's traditional prohibition of alcohol is not strictly observed outside of the month of Ramadan.) The world of Islam, after defiantly exhibiting its separateness, once more let its identity superficially merge with an outer world of machines, nightclubs and psychiatrists, of Christianity and Communism...