Word: alcoholized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last winter a young textile worker went to Manhattan's Neurological Institute. He complained of "spells." Whenever he took a nip of alcohol, coffee, tea or cola drinks, said he, the result was startling: he would lose control of his muscles and leap like a jitterbug. His cavorting was invariable: he curved his fingers like claws, walked on the outside of his feet and jerked his legs in the air. Sometimes he twisted his head to one side, curled his lips in a sneer, and rolled his eyes upward, mumbling and clucking to himself. The only way to stop...
Stomach Ulcers. An ulcer is a sore on the stomach wall, always accompanied by an excessive flow of hydrochloric acid. To the question "Why ulcers?" Dr. Benmosché frankly answers: "We don't know." Most doctors blame alcohol, cigarets and nerves...
...Ernest Hemingway created a stripped, hard-boiled prose for telling terse, hard-boiled stories about broken-down bullfighters, ham prizefighters, gallant trollops, homosexuals, mugs, spiritual victims of the war. "The lost generation" quickly turned his books into bestsellers, tried to talk like Hemingway characters as they sipped raw alcohol in speakeasies, tried to write Hemingway stories in garrets and penthouses. None wrote as well...
...February 11, 1927, however, that the Theatre had its baptism of fire. With touching naivete the management, in collaboration with the Administration, had arranged for a "stag-smoker with eight (8) acts of vaudeville." As the time for the show drew near, denatured alcohol was flowing like water...
...Luyhx" was a Finn, with a strong weakness for whiskey. After a terrific binge, lasting several weeks, an ambulance rushed him to Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital. He was comatose from alcohol, and he had a compound fracture of a leg. He guessed later he must have tumbled, or maybe been kicked, down a stairway somewhere. During his three-week binge Luyhx had eaten practically nothing, and his system was so starved that no immediate surgery could be thought of. After several days it was obvious that only amputation of his leg would save his life. Bellevue's Social...