Word: drinked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...BOYS IN THE BACK ROOM-Jules Romains-McBrlde ($2). Long-winded Novelist Romains takes time off from his big work-in-progress (Men of Good Will, TIME, July 13 et ante) to write this rather painfully jolly interlude about some bright young Parisian pals who loved to drink and play intricate practical jokes...
...selecting Professor Tinker Harvard has chosen an alien genius of undoubted popularity. Harvard has never evinced any false modesty over the worth of her own sons. Through the Norton Professorship, however, she is able to ward off the spring fever of complacency with a salutary drink now and then from the waters of outlying springs. This tonic is of considerable concern to Bostonians, as well as students, and is generally offered to the public. Especially since the professorship is thus turned to a popular purpose must the choice be a popular...
...diuretic, something the raving drunkard requires. In delirium tremens the digestive system is out of whack. Drs. Piker & Cohn wash out the patient's stomach, purge him with cascara and Epsom salts, feed him well. And three times daily the doctors alkalize the patient with potus imperialis, a drink of ½ oz. cream of tartar dissolved in 3 pints of water, sweetened and flavored with lemon peel. They never rouse a sleeping drunk "for any reason, medicinal or otherwise...
...with $285, possibly because he gave the Association prestige by posing before newscameras with two of its operators. Profits from the racket were $2,000,000 per year-all of which, by regular racket custom, was presumably paid by patrons in the shape of higher prices for food and drink. Union members were victimized no less than proprietors and patrons. Their racketeering officers called strikes solely for shakedown purposes, after which strikers were sent back to work usually with their pockets empty, no benefits won. All these charges, the prosecutor promised, would be detailed and proved by first-hand testimony...
...attitude of all dictators toward childbearing, a subject on which Mussolini's semi-official newsorgan Giornale d'ltalia spoke out last week, is enough to make many women fear dictatorships. Declared Giornale d'ltalia: "Italians must not drink less wine lest there be a corresponding decrease in the birth rate. Wine is a moderately exciting beverage which creates happy abandonment that favors accentuation of the phenomena essential to vitality. The birth rate is lowest in countries where wine is not the national drink...