Word: whiskeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are two subjects of current humor which should henceforth be debarred from further mistreatment. These are, of course, any further correspondence of Mr. Irwin's prodigious Japanese Freshman, and the Whiskey Rebellion, which has already been afforded ample space in Mr. Donald Ogden Stewart's inimitable bit in the "Parody Outline of History," in which Mr. Stewart expounds the theory of this liqueured revolt in a very amusing imitation of the bedtime story style of Thornton Burgess. All of which is very interesting but has little to do with the Lampoon's recent offspring. The point in question...
...kind of fate." Opposed only by ignorance and indigence, it crowded Virginia farmlands, Pedlar's Mill in particular, into hopelessness. Men either subsided into ruts-like Dorinda Oakley's plodding father and slaving mother; or their lives straggled, grew weedy -like Dr. Graylock with his whiskey, yellow wench and brood of pickaninnies at dilapidated Five Oaks. Walking early and late to work at the store in Pedlar's Mill, Dorinda wore a flame-colored shawl, bright symbol of protest. Her bee-stung mouth was another protest. Jason Graylock, rufous, crisp but unfound, came home from medical study...
JOHN L. SULLIVAN-R. F. Dibble- Little, Brown ($3.00). Lonely in their libraries, sat Whittier, Lowell, Emerson, Holmes. From a dusty railway coach in the Back Bay station, with splendor in his mien and whiskey on his breath, emerged a bull-necked Irishman. Milling crowds roared greeting. "I thank you one and all very kindly," rumbled the Irishman. "Yours truly, John L. Sullivan...
Queen Victoria did not see fit to receive him. Spying her one day, he waved a friendly hand. She did not return the greeting but merely "muttered comments which I did not hear." On Mar. 5, 1905, he ordered a whiskey, lifted high his glass. "If I ever take another drink," he declaimed, "I hope to choke, so help me God." The rabble guffawed. Sullivan poured the drink into the spittoon-a conversion which constituted the chief prop of the Temperance Party for years thereafter. In 1915, on a small Massachusetts farm, John L. Sullivan died...
Drinking Alcohol. It takes only a little more perfectly pure whiskey than is necessary to induce deep intoxication to produce death. How you take it makes a difference, too. Many deaths result from drinking wagers, on time and quantity. In illicit U. S. liquors, the chief dangerous ingredient is acetaldehyde.?Dr. Reid Hunt, Harvard Medical School...