Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...distilling in the Virgin Islands. This is the first instance in history that our Government has gone into the business of manufacturing liquor. This Government-manufactured rum has been shipped recently to the United States for sale." A message to the convention from President Roosevelt omitted all mention of alcohol, urged world peace...
Premier Prince Konoye is a great talker, a great reader (especially Japanese translations of U. S. books), an internationalist, an idealist who believes in the redistribution of property. A bundle of nerves, he is so fussy about hygiene that he sprinkles alcohol on an apple before eating it. He is a devotee of Kabuki, the Japanese dance-drama. He likes wrestling matches but takes no interest in Japanese baseball. Like his son Fumitaka at Princeton he is fond of golf, took it up ten years ago, got his handicap down to nine, then dropped the game. He is ready, however...
...drugs which make habitual users permanently hard of hearing was the most immediately useful information presented at the convention of the American Otological Society at Long Beach, L. I. last week. Those drugs are, according to Dr. Hermon Marshall Taylor of Jacksonville, Fla.: quinine, salicylates (aspirin, sodium salicylate), tobacco, alcohol, opium, arsenic (salvarsan), lead, mercury, phosphorus, oil of chenopodium, aniline dyes, insulin...
...Arkansas, liquor taxes were upped, various kinds of liquor advertising prohibited. Bills to provide State liquor stores were defeated. Henceforth Arkansas school children will be taught the bad effects of alcohol...
...College Chapel ("an old sow lying on its back") the sight depressed him. reminded him of "an old comb lacking half its teeth." Manhattanites struck him as "uncomfortable, nervous, harassed, brutal, sullen, dehumanized." The U. S. method of solving social problems roused his scorn: "Folks get drunk on alcohol? Easy: abolish alcohol. . . . Dour dramas corrupted Sweet Sixteen? Easy: censor the drama. Crazy communists upset bedtime story mood of bourgeois gentlemen? Easy: jail 'em and let the Supreme Court of the U. S. outlaw their nonsense." The press so disgusted him that he confined his reading to the sports page...