Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Officials of the University of Colorado recently suspended publication of the Flatiron, college humor magazine, claiming that it "debases student morals through pointless allusions to sex and alcohol." The suspension order termed the magazine "unworthy of being published under the name of the University of Colorado...
...back was still bothering him. When he sat, he lined his chair with big flat picture books and a backboard. "I have to take so many pills," he said, "they have to fight among themselves if I take them too close to gether." His daily quota of alcohol, though still substantial enough to keep him in good standing among the alltime public enemies of the W.C.T.U., had fallen far below the old records. Gone were the uninhibited, wine-purpled, 100-proof, side-of-the-mouth bottle-swigging days of the swashbuckling young Ernest Hemingway who was "the bronze...
...European war than many a soldier. With Colonel (now Major General) Charles T. Lanham's 22nd Infantry Regiment, he went through the Normandy breakthrough, Schnee Eifel, the Hiirtgen Forest bloodletting and the defense of Luxembourg. Gathering 200 French irregulars around him, he negotiated huge allotments of ammunition and alcohol and assisted in the liberation of Paris. Hemingway personally liberated the Ritz Hotel, posted a guard below to notify incoming friends: "Papa took good hotel. Plenty stuff in cellar." Commander of the Chain. The postwar Hemingway settled into another good hotel, the Gritti in Venice, to write "the big book...
...douloureux, a form of facial neuralgia often rated the most painful of afflictions, has been relieved for as long as two years by a drug called stilbamidine, taken orally or by injection, reported two Maryland doctors. Previous treatments (cutting a facial nerve or deadening it with alcohol injections) left the patient with no sensation or "phantom" sensations on one side of his face...
...many French bars a sign-thoughtfully provided by a national prohibition society -warns: "Alcohol kills slowly." The local bartender generally appends his own answer: "We don't care. We're in no hurry...