Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week's postponement on $1,000 bail so that he could attend college examinations. They told newsmen that the victim had stepped in front of Walter's automobile, that Walter tried to swerve out of the way but was blocked by another car. The city toxicologist reported finding alcohol in the dead man's brain. In Boston Leo Curley, 16, son of Mayor James Michael Curley, had his driver's license revoked. Last month he was freed of charges after his automobile killed a woman...
...went with them, became a chorus girl in Tangerine. Like Stuart Erwin (who also appears in Two Kinds of Women, comparatively sober), she has distinguished herself by an ability to simulate drunkenness. Erwin is a happy toper, wayward, confident and dazed. Wynne Gibson, when simulating the effects of alcohol, grows querulous and sly. Her voice becomes a gentle whine, her hands dangle nervously as though she hoped to make a gesture, but had forgotten how. Small, slim, with red hair and green eyes, she is exhilarated in Two Kinds of Women, saturated in The Road to Reno, almost numb...
...January 17, "Dietary Habits in Relation to Indigestion" by Dr. C. M. Jones; "The Role of Water in the Body" by Dr. M. I. Gregerson; January 31, "Pneumonia" by Dr. H. L. Blumgart '17; February 7, "The 'Glands' of internal Secretion" by Dr. R. G. Haskins; February 14, "Alcohol" by Dr. T. M. Carpenter; February 21, "What the X-ray Can and Cannot Do" by Dr. G. W. Holmes; February 28, "Rheumatic Heart Disease in Children and Adults" by Dr. T. D. Jones; March 6, "The White House Conference and Oral Hygiene" by Dr. L. M. S. Miner; March...
...doctors, as a body, want modification of the Volstead Act (TIME, Oct. 12), chiefly because they want no Governmental restrictions on their professional conduct. They disagree radically, however, on the merits of alcohol as a drug or tonic. Few alcohol proponents are as "sick and tired of all the bunk" on the subject as is Professor Clendening who Wants to be quoted "freely as saying that the best inherent qualities in any alcoholic drink are in whiskey...
...will have a temperate nation and a civilized one. That may sound like plain speaking, but it's the truth." Before the War and Prohibition, only the cheapest and rawest of whiskey could be bought for a nickel a drink. It was freshly distilled, acrid grain alcohol, diluted with water and colored with caramel. It contained poisonous fusel oils, seared the stomach, appealed only to the poorest of dipsomaniacs...