Word: drinkers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Alcohol's first effect is euphoria, a sense of wellbeing. Mental inhibitions are released. The drinker is gay. Later comes depression, the narcotic effect of alcohol. However, alcohol is not the only stimulant which acts that way. Strong tea and coffee act the same. So too, tobacco, chloroform, ether...
...such a polite city, I really enjoy every minute. Why people even get up to give me a seat in streetcars and subways." On his third newsgathering day, he was sent to interview one Lillie Anderson, just arrested on her 24th intoxication charge. After giving dry advice to Drinker Anderson, Newsman Upshaw went back and wrote his story. It was headlined: BOOZE PARTIES LED LIL ASTRAY UPSHAW LEARNS. Personally, Newsman Upshaw has seen no booze parties in Manhattan. "New York is a city of great rectitude," he explained. "I'd heard so much about the wickedness of it before...
...Drinker...
February 28--"Modern Methods of Cleaning Air", Professor Philip Drinker...
...vouch for the quality of the receipes; they may all be world-beaters. But we haven't tried them, holding the not unnatural prejudice of a sensible drinker against the vast majority of fancy, fruity, and fribbety belly-washes...