Word: sterno
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...report, which appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol, included a description of nine men who have taken to such poisons as rubbing alcohol, witch hazel, antifreeze and Sterno...
...daily takes that often reached $45. Along Chicago's West Madison Street "20% California muscatel" sold briskly at 40? a pint to "winos," while around Baltimore's Market Place the "smokehounds" with red-stained hands laboriously strained alcohol through handkerchiefs from the wax in cans of Sterno (29? a can, cut-rate) and gulped the pinkish alcohol after lining their stomachs with milk. Along the nation's Skid Rows* prosperity was waxing. U.S. bums, in short, never had it so good...
...both young women sing, as nowadays most lady vocalists do, in a peculiarly unpleasant morning voice. The hoarseness is apparently intended to suggest that the girls have taken large doses of sin in their time. In this case, it sounds more as if they had taken small ones of Sterno...
...week than columnists and editors all over the state let out a howl of protest-as Esquire had doubtless expected. The Houston Press streamed a banner across Page One: HEY, TEXANS! THEY'RE SNIPING AT us AGAIN!! It compared Author Dorrity to "a wino on an overdose of Sterno [who] lashes out at everything in sight ..." Said East Texas' Kilgore News-Herald: the article "sounds as if an agent for Joe Stalin wrote it." In the Dallas News, Columnist Paul Crume, carefully misspelling the author's name, wrote: "We think the thing to do is to laugh...