Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Galante" is an adventurous one. An orphan, Marie is the pet of the town which supports her by allowing her to deliver telegrams to congenial owners of little shops and cafes. Her innocent beauty strikes the eye of a sinister ship captain, who shanghai's her as soon as alcohol has relieved him of his scanty scruples. The ship turns out to be the vessel of a group whose every effort is bent upon keeping the powers at sword's edge, a sort of munitions-makers' fairy godmother. At the moment this virtuous band is plotting to blow...
...suicide, in protest at her man's unfaithfulness. When the native men, justifiably angered at the whites, started a surprise massacre, all the native men were killed, most of the whites. For a time after this civil war the remaining men lived in a stupor of alcohol and unbridled miscegenation; then the women turned against them, cornered the supply of muskets and shut themselves into a stockade. The male survivor of this Lysistratian war was finally reconciled, became the patriarch-consort of the island. When a Yankee ship put in to Pitcairn's Island in 1808, the little...
Recent utterances of the President Indicate an obviously defensive attitude for which there can be no political reason as the Democratic flood continues unabated. Power is a headler potion than alcohol and morning after headaches more certain and severe. To the philosophic observer his recent remarks savor of disillusion as one who reluctantly must lay aside cherished dreams to achieve bread and butter. Perhaps it is realized that the Brain Trusters' panaceas may precipitate an industrial crash that will beggar the recent banking collapse unless the New Dealers secure the cooperation and help of practical business men. Platitudes and generalities...
...absinthe requires two kinds of wormwood, "grande absinthe" and "petite absinthe." Proportions: grande absinthe 250 grams; petite absinthe 50 gm.; hysope 100 gm.; citronelle 100 gm.; anis vert 500 gm.; badian 100 gm.; fenouil 200 gm.; and coriandre 100 gm. Directions: Soak the above in 5 litres of pure alcohol (85° C.) for 24 hours. Add 2^ litres of water. Distill this mixture. Take off 21/20 litres of pure distillate. Add to this 2½| litres of pure alcohol (85° C.) and 2¾ litres of distilled water to obtain, in all, about 10 litres of absinthe. Color with chlorophyll...
...waive their claims, but the boys insisted on paying, and within four years they did. Meanwhile a step-brother named Kaplan, onetime draftsman for Western Electric Co., had gone down to Santo Domingo where he started a company to export raw molasses to the U. S. to make industrial alcohol. He lost his first barge in a storm, but by 1919 he was handling nearly 100,000,000 gal. of molasses. That year he summoned Step-Brother Maurice Levin into the company and the next year they sold their Sugar Products Corp. to U. S. Food Products, forerunner of National...