Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...order was relaxed. Adult topers may buy one quart of liquor a week. Bars sell all they like-until they close at 5 p.m. But drunkenness is sternly forbidden. Penalty: a fine up to $500, five years in jail; or both. Bartenders are also punished for getting their customers drunk. On Hawaii's first day of repeal, 17 men, five women were convicted of drunkenness. They were fined up to the limit, sentenced to jail for as long as six months...
...College men should begin right now to stop drinking and free themselves from this drug," said Mrs. Doris Putnam of the Women's Christian Temperance Union yesterday. "They are our future draftees and we are fighting now to teach the boys in camps the dangers of being drunk while they hold military secrets...
...principal task of the Temperance Union now is to create favorable sympathy for the Sheppard Bill, now before Congress, to prohibit prostitution and drinking in and around training centers. Draftees, away from their families for the first time, are often initiated into Army circles with a good drunk, Mrs. Putnam said...
...special interest to the beer-drinking Harvard population is the Union's assertion that two steine of beer have the same effect as a glass of whiskey, and that a person can easily get drunk on beer. A beer-drunk, according to Mrs. Putnam, is the most bestial, low type there...
...Acid Test Ike, who manages punch-drunk fighters...