Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York State Legislature this year refused to pass a prohibition enforcement act. Last week it did, however, enact a law to protect its citizens from the ravages of wood (methyl) alcohol. A 'legger selling this poison as a beverage will go to jail for one year the first time, for two to five years thereafter. Now to stay within the State law, New York 'leggers must deal strictly in the kind of alcohol (ethyl) prohibited...
...quite top-notch but cheerfully active is a large group of hostesses who produce parties in the light-opera class. Typical of this group are: Mrs. John B. Henderson, the self-appointed social guardian of the diplomatic corps in Washington, objects to meat, tobacco, alcohol and short skirts-except when bearing foreign labels. She wants to change the name of 16th Street, where stands her famed brown castle, to "The Avenue of the Presidents." Her swimming pool is open to foreigners almost exclusively. Once she offered the nation a home for the Vice President. When it was declined she sold...
...Springfield, Mass., District Court last week, one Thomas McGregor announced that he had been drunk for the full six months of a term he had just served in Hampden County Jail. He said he drank the denatured alcohol used for shellac in the prison workshop...
...Denatured alcohol is made by adding to grain alcohol some substance which renders it unfit to drink. The denaturent is not always a poison (TIME, Nov. 26, Letters...
...Cecilia Black. 35, mother of three, was Chicago's first female captive under the Five & Ten. Deserted by her husband, she was trying to eke out a livelihood transporting five-gallon cans of alcohol in the back...