Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fact came out in an investigation of the State Agricultural College of Pennsylvania that the ways of students there are wonderfully free. Witnesses swore that boys of ten to twelve drink and smoke; "that some little fellows had pipes in their months all day long, and would frequently stagger into the class-room in a state of intoxication;" that the fumes of rum and tobacco were strong in the hall, and that one lad had an attack of delirium tremens...
That they must drink porter whilst I can drink wine...
Liquor is what makes all the "potenteries;" a rum-seller can never be a happy man. John don't drink, and he says he's respected by all the students. He is now 48, and he "may live a dozen years yet." When he dies, he is "going home...
...Tennyson, through his son Hallam, has replied to the temperance society which recently forwarded him a resolution expressing regret at the "drink" passages in his new song. "My father begs to thank the committee," the son writes, "for their resolution. No one honors more highly the good work done by them than my father. I must, however, ask you to remember that the 'common cup' has in all ages been employed as a sacred symbol of unity, and that my father has only used the word 'drink' in reference to this symbol. I much regret that it should have been...
...York was twenty-six in a thousand, and in 1881 thirty-one, and forty-eight cities in the United States exceeded that. Last year the deaths in New York exceeded the births by 12,494. He said there are six reasons for this deterioration: Americans eat and drink too much; they gamble in stocks and grain as well as at the gaming-table: they are a homeless people, nearly one-half of these living in boarding houses; disappointed ambition is another cause of decay, and finally there is a false standard of success - money...