Word: drunkards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Safety. In his fast-paced, easy-to-read The Other Side of the Bottle, Anderson calls himself a "dry drunkard." He says: "I know that if I live to be as old as an elephant, I shall never be able to take a drink in safety." Technically, there is no "cure" for alcoholism so that a discharged patient can say like other men, "I can take it or leave it alone." However, if the cause of the compulsion to drink can be tracked down, it can often be rooted out by mental treatment. In Anderson's case, the unquenchable...
...forerunners of Alcoholics Anonymous indulged in "a season of songs, prayers and expressions of neighborly interest" at the drunkard's bedside. This was guaranteed to cure all but the most stubborn cases. But one drunkard's wife sewed him up in a sheet, tied him to a bedpost, and called in the neighbors to look at him. Added Blanton: "He never touched liquor again. This was because he was so humiliated that he went out and hanged himself...
...drinking. Toping was common enough in Grant's home town (if a man failed to get drunk at least three or four times a year, he "could hardly maintain his standing in the community, or in the local churches"). But Lewis shows that Grant himself was no habitual drunkard. Married after the Mexican War to Julia Dent, a Missouri plantation belle and the love of his life, Sam Grant was soon separated from her by Army transfer to the gold-struck Pacific Coast. There, among raging prices and get-rich-quick schemes, he saw his hopes of sending...
Bridges defined a "bad security risk" as a "Communist, Communist sympathizer, homosexual, drunkard, or criminal." Is then insisted that Senator McCarthy, who is conducting the State Department investigation, should place Lattimore in this "bad risk" category rather than attempt to accuse him of disloyalty...
...Jowler. Like anything else, university slang has had its contagious fads. In the 17th Century, students ranged their drinking companions in a sort of academic hierarchy. A Bachelor meant a lean drunkard, a Bachelor of Law was one "that hath a purple face, inchac't with rubies," a Doctor was one that "hath a red nose." In the igth and soth Centuries, the fashion has been to add the suffixes -agger, -ogger, and -ugger to the initial consonants of all titles of dignity. Thus Queen Victoria was dubbed The Quagger; the Princes of Wales (in the case of both...