Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...different: the whole rice crop rotted for lack of gasoline to get it to market. The following year Sayão wheedled the Government into shipping an abandoned sugar mill from the coast, set it up in Ceres, and distilled enough alcohol from the colony's sugar to keep the trucks on the road to Anapolis. So in 1946 the colony marketed 160,000 bags of rice in Sao Paulo at prices ranging from...
...that all colleges should shut down for ten years (they were too departmentalized). Also, the U.S. Presidency and State Department should be abolished, and the capital moved closer to the heart of the country. Wright thought cities should be abandoned. "The city," Wright averred, "is a stimulus similar to alcohol, ending in similar degeneracy or impotence-for no city can maintain itself by way of its own birth rate, and a glance at history shows us that all civilizations have died of their cities...
This is no more than the bare skeleton of Under the Volcano. Its flesh & blood is Author Lowry's attempt to set down the detailed workings of the two brothers' minds-the one strangled by disillusion and alcohol, the other frustrated and disgusted by the shallow halfheartedness of dubious humanitarianism. Interjecting themselves among these struggles are the brothers' tangled feelings for Yvonne, in which love, brotherly loyalty, hope crushed by fatal exhaustion and pessimism add to their already tortured consciences...
Died. Edwin Scrymgeour (rhymes with primper), 80, teetotaling, Bible-quoting Scottish Prohibitionist who trounced Winston Churchill in a 1922 election upset, served nine years in Parliament, was himself soundly defeated when he tried to outlaw alcohol in Britain; in Dundee, Scotland...
...Alcohol has entirely supplanted the goldfish on the national college palate, according to Mildred McAfee Horton, president of Wellesley College. In addition, she warned 750 women attending a New York luncheon last Saturday, that campus atmosphere cannot improve so long as "parents send girls to college for opportunities to meet Harvard men," and other non-academic pursuits...