Word: pints
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fill their lockers full of liquor and boast in company about how much they have and the brand they have and not be molested, while the penitentiary is being filled with poor devils who have neither friends nor money, who have been found guilty of having a pint 'on the hip' or making a little liquor for home consumption-then, indeed, when all these things happen justice becomes a mockery and the law becomes a stench in the nostrils of all law-abiding people...
...profession was precipitated from the ninth story of a hotel by a group of jovial actors singing "Out the window he must go"; and now comes the still more painful report that sixty others were held up in a cafe and despoiled of $12,000 in tips, a pint of whiskey, and a pair of new shoelaces...
...present the only real standardization of price is in the human blood. Ten years ago, when transfusions were rare, the price of blood was about $100 a pint. Today it is around...
...contained in the resolution passed by the doctors, effectively reversing the stand of the Association taken in 1917, when the doctors said that liquor was not needed in the treatment of disease. "Repeal the provisions in the Volstead Act that limit the doctor to prescribing not more than a pint to a patient every ten days," the doctors demanded. The liquor resolution contained a complaint on the quality of the liquor now obtained on prescription. In a scientific paper, Dr. Roger I. Lee of Boston said that, although no value was found in the use of alcohol in acute infections...
...Much later, about three years ago, when I was about 88, I had another bad day. This time the analysis showed that alcohol was the trouble. . . . had made it a habit to drink a pint of champagne a day. It was tonic, stimulating, just as cigars were tonic and stimulating. But, at 88, it interfered with health and efficiency. Reluctantly but decisively I cut out the wine. Now I take a glass when a cold threatens-and I'm extremely susceptible to colds-but, apart from that, I'm a total abstainer...