Word: liquorous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Liquor...
...dress" out of McAdoo flags, ribbons, posters. Appareled in the garment, she next day led McAdoo enthusiasts in a sidewalk parade. Newsboys followed, jeered, shouted: "Where you from-the circus?" Others shouted: "McAdoo Oil! McAdoo Oil!" Turning on her assailants, the woman cried: "Oil never will hurt you but liquor will...
...fierce invective against unscientific and unscrupulous prescribing by a limited number of physicians. "One of the most flagrant instances of irrational therapeutics," said Dr. Joseph A. Capps, Chicago, "is the abuse of the physician's license to prescribe alcohol. It is well-known that most of the liquor dispensed by druggists on physicians' prescriptions is not intended for the treatment of the sick. Whatever we, as individuals, may think of the Volstead Law, we are morally bound to restrict prescriptions to medicinal purposes. Selling one's prescription blanks to the druggist is worse than fee splitting...
...request made by Sir Brodrick Hartwell, Bart., for subscriptions to buy liquor abroad and ship it to the rum fleet off the shore of the U. S. threatens to become an international incident. The Baronet's first appeal was to British investors and led to a controversy with Premier MacDonald, who referred to his activities as a "disgraceful blot" (TIME, June 9). Apparently British contributors were not forthcoming. But Sir Brodrick is not easily discouraged. His next appeal was made to Americans. He obtained a "sucker list" and mailed a glowing prospectus to the names upon it, which, under...
...future. "The dare-devil spirit which for a time promoted indulgence in liquor is passing." College students are coming to the belief that alcoholism and venereal disease are the two curses of America and of the rest of the world, and must be stamped...