Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reindeer is almost the sole business of nomad Lapps. Illiterate and uncivilized, they make little or no distinction between Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, roam the extreme northern wastes of those countries which they call "Lapland." When winter comes adult nomad Lapps have a persistent habit of getting dead drunk for months at a time, leave to their hardy children the task of feeding the reindeer. When two Lapp men fight in earnest-and if they fight at all it is generally in earnest-the victor is apt to make a eunuch of his foe. Last week King Gustaf...
...Volstead Act. To trie Flouse from its Ways & Means Committee was reported a bill (H. R. 13,312) legalizing 3.2% beer?a product about as strong as that sold currently in good speakeasies. After long hearings and solemn consideration the committee had concluded that no one could get drunk on such a beverage, that therefore it was a non-intoxicant under the 18th Amendment. Ostensibly H. R. 13,312 was put forward as a new tax bill to raise additional budget-balancing revenue. Its real purpose, however, was to carry out the V. S. electorate's Wet mandate...
...liquor which may reasonably be said to be non-intoxicating in fact. Your committee believes that 3.2% beer is, on eminent authority, non-intoxicating in fact. . . . The alcohol is so diluted that it would require considerable effort on the part of an average person to drink enough to become drunk...
...shoes of the same type. I've often wondered if it's the things they drink. My, what terrible stuff it is. Why, say, one of them came home one morning when I was in tidying up and he offered me a drink; he was that drunk. Well I couldn't refuse, and so, well, that stuff was worse than what Bert, he's my husband, what Bert brings home and you don't know what Bert, brings...
...legalize again. With logical reasoning one infers that if everyone, including the innocent children, must drink several gallons a week, since the mathematical odds favor the capacity of the saloon habitue as compared to the post-war drinker, more than ninety per cent of the people would be drunk every week. Continuing in this vein, if only about ten per cent were left to manufacture the beer, it is doubtful if they could supply the consumers. The belligerent beer drinkers might revolt; they might even try manufacturing their own beer...