Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coincidence created a controversy. As everyone knows, a certain amount of spirited celebration goes on between Christmas and New Year's Day. In New York City alone, 46 deaths due to alcoholism were reported during the holidays this year; a proportionate number of deaths occurred throughout the land; the alcoholic wards of hospitals were full. Then on Jan. 1, the new Government formula for denaturing industrial ethyl alcohol went into effect. It doubles the amount of poison which manufacturers are required to use.* The old argument of whether or not the Government has the right to use poison...
...Government is under no obligation to furnish the people with alcohol that is drinkable when the Constitution prohibits it. The person who drinks this industrial alcohol is a deliberate suicide. . . . To root out a bad habit costs many lives and long years of effort...
...Some of the bootleg liquor is just as deadly as denatured alcohol. It is strange logic to insist that if a person buys bootleg poisoned alcohol and is killed by using it he is a martyr. But if he buys carbolic acid and drinks it he is merely a suicide...
...fact, it [the new formula] is less dangerous. The other ingredients in it, alcohol or pyridine, make it less drinkable and neutralize in part the poison effect. It tastes like the seepage of a garbage can flavored with overheated oil. One drink will turn a normal stomach inside...
...carried to a Manhattan hospital, almost dead. They registered him as Lawrence Buermeyer, instructor in philosophy at New York University. He had been discussing philosophy with his friend since college days at Princeton, Joseph Carson Jr. of Columbia University's philosophical faculty. They had been drinking grain alcohol and water as they argued. Philosopher Buermeyer's wounds, inflicted with a shoe, fists, a milk bottle, a broom, were the tokens of a disagreement. Philosopher Carson, having confessed, was put under $10,000 bail (TIME, Nov. 1). ... Last week the two philosophers came to court with their lawyers. Said...