Word: ams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your issue of Aug. 12, p. 50, under Medicine refers to drunkenness. I am moved by this article to give you the definition of Dean Samuel F. Mordecai, late of the Law School of Duke University:
The only thing that cheered me up about the whole dreadful sight was a splendid brave mother swan who beat and beat with her wings at one of the men until his nose bled. Ordinarily I am made ill by such a sight, but I held onto myself and gave...
"Not drunk is he who from the floor Can rise again to drink once more: But drunk is he who prostrate lies And cannot cither drink or rise." I am also reminded of the definition of Dean Gulley of Wake Forest College Law School; that is to say:
"My fight is for national defense. . . . I expect no reward, except the consciousness that I am helping my country."
¶ "I am well aware that more of the girls and women employed in offices and industry are drinking now than was the case ten years ago. . . . [But] as far as the women of the country are concerned. Prohibition has come to stay."