Word: liquor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vegas-but I'm not going to gamble. And I'd like to go to Hollywood-I've heard so much about that kind of life." Soberly, Louis Hoffner concluded: "Then I'd like to find some legitimate business, maybe a liquor store. I'd like to enjoy life...
...anemic little yarn about an English theatrical royal family. Jacy Florister, 27, an ex-child star dangling rebelliously from maternal apron strings, has long wanted to know more about his deceased British father, whom his mother always refers to as "a moron." When poolside sex and liquor kill mother. Jacy quits Hollywood and flies to England to scratch around for his "roots." He not only digs up the Florister clan, a prolific, Barrymoreish brood whose blood lines rival the "begats," but also the girl of his dreams, a brunette witch of a first cousin named Olive...
Despite '30's consumption of hot clam chowder, 250 pounds of salads, and 150 dozen rolls, the First Aid Station reported that "things were generally quiet." Under the beverage canopy, 50 quarts of liquor disappeared, along with some 30 cases of soda pop. Joseph D. McCarthy (no relation) was again Field Marshal of Spirits, and supplied the details for those entranced by statistics. Bourbon was most popular, rye the least, and martinis led Manhattans, although the margin narrowed late in the afternoon...
Cigarettes & Liquor. Wynder and colleagues studied 209 U.S. victims of larynx cancer, 132 of lung cancer (for comparison), and 209 victims of other diseases, including some forms of cancer, of the same ages and backgrounds as the larynx-cancer cases. Their key findings...
...smoker who drinks more than six ounces of hard liquor daily is seven times as likely to get larynx cancer as a teetotaler who smokes the same amount. Below six ounces, the liquor does not seem to affect the cancer risk. Liquor does not influence the development of lung cancer...