Word: alcoholized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brown University administrators reached an impasse yesterday as the result of open student opposition to President Wriston's decision to enforce a 20-year-old edict on alcohol and women in dormitories...
...salves, nose drops, gargles, vaccines and every other nostrum. All that the victim can do is try to get some relief. For a stuffy nose, drops are helpful (though sometimes they boomerang and cause renewed stuffiness). Aspirin soothes headache, fever and muscle pains which go with a cold. Alcohol, the Journal concedes, "in reasonable doses," expands the blood vessels and restores circulation to chilled skin and mucous membrane. But the old standby, rest in bed, is still the treatment doctors like best...
...world was a paranoid Luna Park lit by alcohol and filled with ingenious contraptions for the exercise of harmless aggression and idiosyncratic suspicion. To find out if his servants were stealing canned goods, he set up an elaborate Dictaphone apparatus. To scare off kidnapers, he would prowl his grounds at 2 a.m., armed with blackjacks and carrying on loud conversations with fictitious bodyguards. He never made his peace with the world because he saw no good reason to be at peace with...
...Failures in art," he said, "take refuge in abstract art, in morbid art, in perverted art-in short, in infamous art. These failures are like a leper who . . . insists on exhibiting his awful ulcers . . . [They] stimulate themselves with cocaine, morphine, marijuana, alcohol and snobbism . . . There is no room for abstract or morbid art in . . . the Peronista doctrine, for Peronismo is a doctrine of love, of perfection, of altruism, which soars with a superhuman quality into the skies. Peronismo is a doctrine of the virtues of a people . . . who know what is beautiful and what is ugly, who can distinguish...
...Weissenbach, frankly partisan, denounced the aperitif or cocktail. Said he: "All drinks containing alcohol, even wine, taken before eating are poison." The proper dosage of wine to be taken with meals, he suggested, was about a pint a day for the intellectual worker, a quart for a factory worker, 1½ quarts for a man doing physical work out of doors...