Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...things Mr. McGraw, myself and millions like us, enjoy today. Without steel pipe, there might be plenty of oil today, but beyond reach. There would be no flivvers for there would be no gasoline. There would be few, if any, modern water works, supplying pure water so inducive to health. Given the water works, employing chemical purifying systems, it requires no imagination to picture the effects of chlorin and other elements upon brass pipe...
...dawn to the last shadow of dusk all citizens were ordered to remain within their doors; none might venture out unless with an official permit. All day long 50,000 census takers, accompanied by police and soldiers, counted heads, took names, ages, religions, professions, native languages spoken, examined for health and applied simple educational tests, while the suspicious populace, quietly submitting to the inquisition, wondered if all the counting of heads was to assist the taxgatherer in his unwelcome rounds...
...Haven Emerson, professor of public health administration at Columbia had said: "In the absence of any evidence that health, as revealed by vital statistics, is less good in the U. S. in 1927 than it was in 1920 [when prohibition became law], and since we have good reason to believe that less rather than more alcohol per capita is now being consumed in this country than when traffic in alcoholic beverages was an industry acceptable under the law, and since we know that alcohol used by healthy persons does not add to their health, it is my opinion that some...
...Reed's rebuttal excited the public health convention. Men shouted and gesticulated. Dr. Reed wanted to speak further. "Dr. Emerson," said he, "tried to make prohibition responsible for about everything except the frost on the pumpkin and the swallow's homeward flight." Dr. Charles Value Chapin of Providence, R. I., chairman of the meeting, ordered the discussion closed, soothed everybody...
...Goldstein had a warrant for Dr. Miller's arrest, on behalf of Mrs. Miller. The surgeon was suing her for divorce, charging her with cruelty, impairing his health, refusing to associate with his mother and sisters, and ridiculing his father's favorite game (golf). Mrs. Miller wanted alimony. Of the details Mr. Goldstein cared not. He had his warrant to serve...