Word: drunk
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Drinkers' Sons. Ten generations of rats were daily intoxicated with alcohol fumes. The eleventh generation was put in a cage with descendants of nonalcoholic rats. The two strains got drunk at the same rate. Conclusion: a drinker's sons cannot inherit from him a steady head for drinking; acquired characteristics are not demonstrably inheritable.?Frank Blair Hanson and Florence. Hays, Washington University, St. Louis...
...Milwaukee, Drs. J. L. Yates and William Thalhimer made use of an old soak who had pernicious anemia. He was 65, had wretched teeth and would get drunk between blood transfusions. Altogether he received 52 litres (54.95 quarts) of blood. Some of it was fresh from the donors; some had been kept in cold storage; some was modified, some unmodified. The man soaked up anything the doctors thought good for him. When he died he was living on blood three-fourths of which was not his own and had undergone 113 transfusions. "No other patient has received...
...Pierre S. du Pont, chairman of the board of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., when he told of the benefits of the Quebec Liquor Commission in the December issue of Current History. Said he: "In Quebec a non-injurious quantity of alcohol may be purchased and drunk freely and openly with State guarantee of freedom from harmful adulterant. But in the United States the legal penalty for this harmless act is death. That death does not result from the many drinks taken is because our law is not enforced; legally all alcohol sold should contain the lethal dose...
...week I was presented with 10,000 signatures urging clemency for Brooklyn Patrolman John J. Brennan, 28, condemned to the electric chair. On Jan. 2 one Samuel Krainen, shopkeeper, called at a Brooklyn police station, and identified Brennan as one who had created a disturbance in his shop when drunk. As a sergeant was thereupon removing Brennan's shield, Brennan fired a revolver at Krainen, killing him. Last week, during the long day preceding the hour for his electrocution, Brennan kept asking his guard: 'Is there any news yet from Albany?' But I sent no word...
Until the last act it scarcely seems possible that that other promising juvenile." William Janney, who takes the hurdles as Tommy, can be compared to his teammate, Peg. But in the last act he stages a Jack Dalton, and saves the cLeeild, with an excellent performance as Tommy-When-Drunk, and that though he is sober as Andrew Volstead...