Word: drank
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs : TIME for Nov. 14, 1927, p. 29: "Alone, he drank a bathroom germicide and died quickly." To say "a bathroom germicide" is better than to name a specific poison. But for reasons which you no doubt appreciate, the more indefinite such reports, the better. Why not say "he took a poison"? Or, better yet, "he was found dead"? There are some interesting statistics on the relation of suicide incidence to publicity - sorry I haven't the references. THOMAS C. MCVEAGH, M.D. Honolulu, Hawaii. No circumlocution would change the fact that the crippled boy committed suicide, nor deter...
...never tasted alcoholic drink. My janitor was nice to was me for a while; I remember his name. It was -- --.* Then one night he came into my room laughing and shouting. "Here, sport!" he cried, "Drink this! It'll make a man of you!" I drank it. It was whiskey and I rather imagine he had stolen it from some other student. It was the first time I the had ever tasted an strong evening liquor but it was not my last. Many an evening --- and myself caroused, either in my little room or in the Dean...
...dolts-in-the-mountains." Your paragraph (TIME, Sept. 5) was excellent. (Mr. Miller [TIME, Oct. 10] to the contrary.) I am a mountaineer, also a life pupil in Luther Burbank's "University of Nature"; know the Grand Canyon, too. Have had opportunity to observe thousands of people as They drank in, individually, some of Nature's great spectacles...
...gone. What can I do now?" asked the boy when told of the decision. He moped at home. His father tried to cheer him until calls from patients took him away. The mother tried to comfort her boy but was obliged to leave for an appointment. Alone, he drank a bathroom germicide and died quickly...
Rasputin ate greedily of the cake but it did not seem to affect him. He drank poisoned wine, seemingly without effect. "Play something cheerful. I like to hear you sing," said the monk to his worried host, Prince Yussupov. He sang...