Word: whiskeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Whiskey Test. To the University of Cincinnati came 300 volunteers who drank good whiskey and then let their alcoholized breaths pass through a solution of 50% sulphuric acid containing a trace (1/3%) of potassium dichromate. This solution is ordinarily reddish yellow; alcohol vapor makes it change to a bluish green. The more whiskey the Cincinnati bibbers swallowed and the more drunk they became, the more bluish green became the solution. There is so definite a relation between degree of intoxication and the sulphuric acid-potassium dichromate tint, that Cincinnati judges have used its evidence in arrests for driving motor cars...
...Whiskey Protest. " Attention has previously been called to numerous arbitrary restrictions imposed on the medical profession by unnecessary restrictive enforcement regulations regarding medicinal agents. I need only mention the statement on the back of a recent issue of the Volstead prescription book: i. e., 'You are personally responsible for this book. It will not be replaced if lost and failure to properly safeguard it will result in revocation of your permit.' Such a statement may be characterized only as insulting to an honored profession."?Wendell C. Phillips, retiring President...
Prices. The Government Liquor Commission will establish prices. Forecast: Scotch $7 Canadian whiskey $5; beer $2. Beer will be sold at cost; wines and whiskeys at a profit...
...Adams of Cincinnati to his associates, spend $60,000,000 yearly for cosmetics-perfumes, toilet waters, cold creams and talcums. A favorite talcum has been one that imitates a coat of tan. A new perfume intended for men is golden brown and has a bouquet reminiscent of Scotch whiskey. In the face of robust custom, the problem of advertising cosmetics to men is no less difficult than the problem of cigaret-makers advertising to women smokers...
...that the tickets for downstairs were printed: "Evening Dress Indispensable," for all that some of the country's biggest whiskey and oil peers and their wives were on full view, some found it a disappointing first night. Fine old names were missing from the box plates. The stalls were full of middle-class folk to whom opera was a social rite, not an entertainment...