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...sweet: therefore it cloys, not appetizes.* It may be all very well as a punch, or a liqueur, but never as a cocktail. The popularity of the Dry Martini places it without any doubt in the minds of the majority as the "World's Finest." Let the drinker beware of the European barman-he likes to skimp on his liquors and trust to melted ice to fill the glasses: tell him "pas trap glacé" (not too much ice) or, jocularly, "pas trap mouillé" (not too wet). GRAFTON D. DORSEY
These women might have turned the pages of history back a little farther than 1775 and read the works of Cotton Mather, an authority on the efficacy of prayer, although a temperate drinker. He pointed out to his parish the inadvisability of being too demanding in one's supplications to the Lord. He cites an instance when a colonial army went into Canada secure behind the prayers of the faithful, who prayed not to conquer the enemy, but merely that their army should not be annihilated by the wiles of the French...
Professor Cabot has taken an active part in the support of the Massachusetts Dry Enforcement Law. From his experience in many years of medical service he says that even the moderate, regular drinker was even more effectively poisoned than the occasional drinker who gave his system a chance to throw off the poison...
...When an executive who has been very keen and capable begins to accept things as they are . . . I can feel very certain that he is tippling out of hours. . . .* Brains . . . are made permanently dull by even the most moderate habitual use, and they vanish altogether in the steady, heavy drinker...
Because San Francisco's Children's Hospital has only one Drinker Respirator, its staff last week was obliged to make a character-testing decision. The Drinker Respirator, invented by Dr. Philip Drinker of the Harvard School of Public Health, is a mechanical aid to breathing. It is a large casket into which the body of a patient with respiratory paralysis can be inserted. His head extends into the open air. A motor creates a vacuum in the respirator causing the chest to expand. Consequently stimulating oxygen and carbon dioxide may be sucked into the patient's lungs...