Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wood Alcohol. Ages ago coal was, of course, living wood, and now, like wood, it is being converted into methyl (wood) alcohol. General Georges Patart of France makes this alcohol by heating soft coal until carbon monoxide and hydrogen result. To these gases he adds oxygen to form an organic product. Then, with this synthetic compound on hand he can create formaldehyde (essential for the synthetic resins like Bakelite) or the more complicated alcohols (as isobutyl and amyl, useful in making varnishes...
...which I claim to be the superior of Shakespeare. But I spend more time on the prefaces to my plays than on the plays themselves, and I prefer my reputation as philsopher to that as dramatist. I am, as everyone knows, a vegetarian, and a total abstainer from tobacco, alcohol and soap. To these denials I attribute my present vigor at 70. I am now engaged upon a new play, to be called Vegetariana. For a young girl dying of an obscure malady, doctors prescribe beefsteaks; she does not improve. The doctors prescribe Africa, but with all the comforts...
...there were, for long periods, heaps and masses of strange fruits, herbs, berries. Distilling out their essential oils, combining and recombining, adding and subtracting now orange, now pungent juniper, Professor Wood satisfied himself at last that he had the exact formula of essential oils that were added to glycerine, alcohol and distilled water to produce the finest commercial gin. Professor Wood then told his secret to manufacturing chemists and had prepared many tiny vials which he called "Eastwood Essence" and gave to friends at Christmas time. His friends urged him to have more and more vials prepared. In time, Eastwood...
...Every gin essence has its own formula for mixing, varying between 16 and 48 drops per quart. The proportions of other ingredients remain about constant: three parts of distilled water to two parts of alcohol (pour the water into the alcohol, not vice versa). Shake with great patience. Add glycerine by the teaspoonful to suit the taste. Some authorities maintain that the best blends are obtained by diluting the essence in a small quantity of alcohol before adding it to the whole "batch...
...fashioned whiskey glass contained 2 oz., 8 to the pint. Good foreign brandy contains 50% absolute alcohol, good wine 10%, good beer 5%. To become dead drunk, according to these scientific calculations, would require 1% quarts of brandy, 7% quarts of wine, 1¼ cases of beer...