Word: drinkers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...secret of Franklin was his memory and his shrewd cleverness. It was easy for him to recall the slightest detail of even distant events, and he had a plan for everything." In spite of his careful creed of moderation, Ben was "cheerful and fond of good living, a hearty drinker and a good story teller." Also, though Author Faÿ does not labor the point, Ben had little saintliness in his blood: in 1785 he had a great-grandson, the illegitimate son of the illegitimate son of his illegitimate son. Author Faÿ, ironic but appreciative, thus describes the meeting...
January 12--Mr. Philip Drinker, "Dust and Health...
...have been perfecting a combination-really a gigantic, cooperative Coffee Trust-which the world has found hard to beat. By systematic hoarding of the Sāo Paulo crop in good years and judicious release of these hoardings in bad they have made each and every U. S. coffee-drinker spend about 50? more per year for his coffee than he otherwise would. The U. S. coffee-drinker spends about $2.20 for raw coffee imported, pays a goodly extra sum to have it roasted, ground, tinned...
...like morphine, and a single glass of beer is sufficient to render some men incapable of driving an automobile safely." Professor Carver agreed heartily with this argument, and added that, in the matter of drunken driving, there is more danger to a community from the actions of a moderate drinker than from a habitual drunkard. "A man" completely intoxicated is not likely to go out and drive a car, whereas a person who has but a few drinks, maybe one or two, will be allowed to drive his car, in doing which he endangers the lives of citizens. The fact...
Because a drinker's urine, blood and cerebrospinal fluid contain alcohol, the amount therein furnishes a quantitative test of his bibbling. But because susceptibility varies, such amount can at most give only a presumption of his intoxication. By such test was Wilmer Stultz, the trans-Atlantic flyer, pronounced drunk after he killed himself recently (TIME, July 15, 1929). In the living person the test must be made very soon after he is charged with being drunk to have value, because alcohol oxides rapidly, and disappears from the system as carbon dioxide and water...