Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...balance the French budget in these hard times lotteries and roulette have again been made legal. Last week, Paris was sure that absinthe will be next. The Cabinet of Premier Gaston ("Gastounet") Doumergue was reported considering whether to legalize absinthe at its full pre-War strength of 66% alcohol or perhaps go further and legalize what used to be called Swiss absinthe (80%). According to inspired reports, "The Government feels that by monopolizing the sale and manufacture of absinthe they can keep consumption within moderate limits and yet obtain a large revenue...
Absinthe connoisseurs contemptuously observed that the humdrum bourgeois statesmen who make up the present Cabinet were wasting their time debating anxiously such a minor factor as the alcoholic strength of a drink which gets its chief effect from wormwood (absinthium) which contains the powerful narcotic absinthin. The alcohol in absinthe acts as the carrier and catalyst of the drug in its subtle assault upon the brain. Neither wormy nor a wood, wormwood is a bitter-tasting weed fairly common in Europe and the U. S. under such local names as madderwort, mugwort, ming-wort, warmot and wermuth. Swiss farmers never...
Making rayon out of nitrocellulose is a delicate chemical process involving the use of ether, alcohol and acids. A sudden shut-down at Hopewell ruined not only the material being processed but collodion solidified in the pipe lines and spinning pumps, and the acids ate into the neglected machinery...
Bound for the International Anti-Alcohol Congress in London, Bishop James Cannon Jr. docked at Plymouth, declared one bottle of whiskey. "For demonstration purposes only." he explained...
...University of London's college of physiology and medical entomology. When War came he went to France to supervise latrine sanitation, iodization and chlorination of water, delousing. Using a pipette constantly he occasionally got a mouthful of tainted blood. That and the gum-hardening effect of precautionary alcohol gargles lost him all but a few of his teeth. He is married, has two children...