Word: drunkeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have seen something of that sort in Mexico during the Villa ravages and among semi-civilized people or savages half-drunk on sotol and marijuana.* But that such a thing should happen in a country of some supposed culture passes comprehension...
...jigger of cocktail rum (on which President Vincent is trying to get a 50% reduction of U. S. duty), a half teaspoonful of Angostura bitters and chopped ice to be spun rapidly with a limewood swizzle stick until the ice has melted and (hen drunk before the ''bead" on the liquor sub-sides...
...called Jane Seymour. Her long-lost suitor, the itinerant violinist, is labeled Peter Stuyvesant. Inept are Widow Seymour's efforts to disentangle her son from the siren snares of a "voluptuous" and "continental" woman with whom Violinist Stuyvesant was once embroiled. There is a teetotaling housekeeper who gets drunk, and a happy ending. Sample comedy, when the addle-headed housekeeper hears the name of a famed sexologist mentioned: "If that Mr. Havelock Ellis comes around here, I'll slam the door in his face...
...sold to children. Teachers in Brooklyn and Philadelphia began to note their pupils' dull eyes, thick speech, wobbly walk. The candies, selling for 2? apiece, held benedictine. cherry brandy, rum or cognac. Six of them, the equivalent of a short, stiff cocktail, were enough to make a child drunk. Several shopkeepers were arrested, claimed that they had bought the liquor candies for cash from a mysterious man in a truck who left no name or address...
...middle-age both had good wives, children they were proud of; they rarely saw each other. At their 35th class reunion they met for the last time. Roiter was speaker of the evening at the class dinner, envious Hallem merely an unconsidered diner. To show his superiority Hallem got drunk, interrupted Roiter's speech, finally reeled out. laughing. Flallem's wife nursed him through the inevitable physical and mental hangover, kept him from trying once more to kill himself. But the next time the mood got him Hallem was too quick for his saviors. Roiter, too. fell...