Word: tonic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stacked in cases in what is left of the Pabst brewery (Milwaukee) have been thousands of bottles of medicinal malt tonic. Last week permits to make and sell the tonic were issued by the prohibition section of the Treasury Department to Pabst of Milwaukee and AnheuserBusch of St. Louis. Professional Anti-Saloon League furor ensued, and thus the names of two firms, once household words, flickered in U. S. minds which had almost buried them in subconscious limbo...
Except for the two classic names. there was nothing to warrant excitement. In the first place, the malt tonic is unpotable. While it contains 3.5% alcohol, it also contains 25% solid. One slimy gulp of it is unpleasant, two are unspeakable, three unthinkable. In the second place, the permits granted were only temporary, and if U. S. ingenuity finds ways of using the tonic as a base for soul-satisfying beer, the permits will be, according to General Lincoln C. Andrews, speedily withdrawn...
...Chicago Tribune lugubriously pointed out that if prohibition will sacrifice health needs to the mere possibility of using a distasteful tonic as beer, the end of the matter might well be the prohibition of the raising of grain, fruit. Simultaneously wise Mark Sullivan (political critic) suggested that the eastern wets were all wrong in advocating "beer and wine" because in the West beer is dreaded as much as anything. The reason for the dread is that beer is associated with saloons. For it was brewers like Pabst and AnheuserBusch who monopolized the saloon business, controlled the licenses, exerted through...
...exciting factor, but is usually not such in the later months. It may be interesting to note here that one writer thinks the likelihood of conception is increased by a voyage in which slight seasickness is experienced. This, we think, is due rather to the exhilarating and tonic effects of the usual sea trip...
Nevertheless, he has resurrected "the sick man of Europe", doomed to an early death by the World War, revived him on tonic of blood and iron at Smyrna and established him convincingly at Angora. Once more that redoubtable invalid plays the classic Ottoman game of fast-and-loose with Russia and Britain. He signs the Lausanne pact, and as readily a treaty of amity with Russia. He drives the unbeliever into Greece. He toys with the wily Briton at Chanak, Mosul, and in Irak. He has the very temerity to throw a wrench into the World Court, a deed pardonable...