Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During his researches, Dr. Jolliffe ran across a bartender who had drunk ten one-and-one-half-ounce jiggers of whiskey every day for 40 years and ate little solid food, but whose nerves were sound. Investigation revealed that the bartender poured every jigger of whiskey into a ten-ounce bar glass, filled it with milk, and drank that. The 75 ounces or so of milk thus consumed daily provided him with plenty of Vitamin...
...ignorant, strutting braggart to a despicably small man intent upon upholding his supposititious good name. Having run the family into crushing debt on the strength of an inheritance that was never to be realized, he curses out his daughter in the roundest of terms, and goes out to get drunk for the last time he can pay for. The son, who has become a neurotic one-armed cripple in the violent so-called service of his country, turns out to be equally base. In fact, the play almost reduces to a eulogy of woman as the great creator and preserver...
...winemaker speaks of Prohibition without turning as purple as one of his own grapes. Before Jan. 1, 1920, California was making 40,000,000 gallons of wine a year and California wines were being drunk in London. Wine had been made in California missions since 1769 but it began to be taken seriously only when Hungarian Count Agostin Haraszthy imported cuttings of about 500 kinds of European grapes in the 1860s...
...when they heard cheap foreign wines selling at $1 or so a bottle compared with California wine selling for $1 or so a gallon. In short much of the vin ordinaire of California is fully as good as the vin ordinaire of France. And nine-tenths of the wine drunk in any country is vin ordinaire...
...transfer us into bacon," frightened by the possibility that the train would go off the track or a rail come through the floor of the car. On steamers he was afraid of fire. He was relieved when he got into stage-coaches, but on one a driver was drunk, on another a wagon tongue broke, almost tipped them off a mountain. Although he does not say that he regained his health on his strenuous junket, his diary gives the impression that Southern sunshine must have been beneficial, or he could never have stood the trip home...