Word: teetotaller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fed up with such teetotal prohibition, in force in the Navy since 1914, Vice Admiral Henry Kent Hewitt, U.S. naval commander in the Mediterranean, this week told newsmen that the rule should be lifted to allow beer on U.S. ships.
Died. Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, 80, dean of English belle-lettrists, two months after he was hit by a jeep; in Fowey, Cornwall. Known to all Eng land as "Q," red-haired Quiller-Couch (Couch, pronounced Cooch, means red in Celtic) wrote the first of his 30 romantic novels...
Said the plump, teetotal Primate of All England: "What is primarily a moral problem with a medical aspect," said he, "is being treated as if it were primarily a medical problem with a moral aspect."
Senators, especially those up for reelection, shuddered as they thought of the teetotal sentiment they might have to face back home. They could have saved their shudders. The yowl of the nation's wets was a little late, but it was loud.
A captain in World War I, Soldier Murphy is due to be paid as much as General Pershing. His Court salary is $20,000 a year, and will continue while he remains at Fort Benning. He has, however, forsworn the added pay of a lieutenant colonel. While in the Army...