Word: drunk
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...moderate drinkers, but thousands cannot. My father was, but his son never could, and never can be. You call a man weak-minded because he cannot do what you can. I say, he is not weak-minded-physical infirmity is not weak-mindedness. Whether a man gets drunk or not, depends solely on his temperament. Negatively good, inactive people can be temperate; but the easy going fellow, cheerful in society, never...
...formed, merely for the enforcement of the laws relating to the liquor traffic. This league included men who were prohibitionists, licencists, extremists, moderatists, Democats and Republicans. The liquor laws forbid sales of liquor to minors, on Sundays, on election day, to drunkards or men who have been seen drunk within six months, within four hundred feet of a schoolhouse. They forbid also the placing of any sort of screens in doorways or windows of saloons. The league was formed to enforce these laws, and has thus far confined itself chiefly to the first two restrictions. This has been done...
...college. At Harvard there was a schedule of fifty-five offences punishable by penalties varying from two pence, for absence from prayers, to two pounds ten shillings, for absence from town for a month. If a man was absent from recitation, it cost him 1s. 6d.; if he got drunk, the penalty was no greater. Going to meeting before the ringing of the bell was an offence, and the over-prompt student was fined 6d. The penalty for playing cards was 5s. for graduates, 2s. 6d. for undergraduates. And so on down the list...
...some in a slow, others in a hurried manner, but all plainly showing that their situation was by no means a pleasant one. Out of the whole number there assembled, only four or five escaped without having been made unwell. Those who put the drug in the coffee had drunk the most, in order to escape detection, and were consequently severely affected. Unluckily, one of them was seen putting something into the boilers, and the names of the others were soon discovered. Although the examination was delayed for a day or two on account of these occurrences, it was again...
There is an '88 club table in Memorial, which devours infants' food in enormous quantities. Bread and molasses is the staple article of diet, while milk enough is drunk the float the U. S. Navy...