Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...note and cherish what he did accomplish. This divides itself easily into two classes-first such remarkable geure pictures of the life of the people as "The Jolly Beggars," "Halloween," and a dozen other vigorous examples; and second those keen, sweet songs in which the passions of patriotism, of drink, above all of love, are expressed with a perfectness and a concentration unequalled in modern literature...
...protected against coercion. Pub. Opin. July 11, '95.- (b) For economic reasons.- (1) $184, 000 which was spent every Sunday for beer alone before the enforcement of the law would be diverted to better channcls: Pub. Opin., July 25, '95.- (2) Workingmen, instead of spending their wages in drink, and so injuring their powers for work, would save the money, or take their family for an outing: Roosevelt in Forum, Sept., '91.- (c) On the score of good order: Pub. Opin., Aug. 1, '95.- (1) Improves public morals: Pub. Opin., July 23, '95.- (2) Number of Sunday arrests for drukenness...
...until after the Persian wars that comedy began its true course. Cretinus, who died in 422 B. C., was the real originator of Attic comedy. He was a poet of great merit. Though much addicted to drink, he lived to the great age of ninety-eight. Aristophanes ridiculed him in the "Nights," but regretted it afterwards, as Cretinus amply revenged himself in the "Whiskey Flask...
Drunkenness is not alluring. If the indulgence led immediately to drunkenness, no one would drink. The ranks of drunkenness are filled with those who were moderate drinkers...
There is nothing which so inflames all the passions of a man as light drinks. The heriditary effects of beer, for instance, are known to be much more vicious than those of distilled liquors. Beer has a degenerating influence on the whole system, and beer drunkenness is the most degrading of all; it multiplies all forms of diseases and crimes. An idea has got abroad that drunkenness does not exist in wine producing countries. This is not true. The Germans, in spite of the popular notion that they are only beer drinkers, drink more heavy drink than any other people...