Word: whiskeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...testify against Max Stephan. I have only to clear out the facts and tell the truth." Coldly, in a heavy guttural, he told the facts in detail. The jury took but 83 minutes to convict Max Stephan of treason, the first such conviction under Federal statute since the Whiskey Rebellion trials in 1795. Since the Government did not demand his death, Max Stephan will probably escape the hangman...
...delirium tremens fatal? Does whiskey drinking cause cirrhosis of the liver? Will too much liquor cause insanity? These and other fascinating questions are answered in Alcohol Explored (Doubleday, Doran; $2.75), a new popular book published last fortnight by famed Yale Physiologists Howard Wilcox Haggard, Elvin Morton Jellinek. Highlights...
...three jiggers of whiskey sharpen the senses for a few minutes, also increase muscular skill. At the same time, liquor -by blunting higher brain centers -dulls judgment, makes it difficult to discriminate between the loudness of two tones, brightness of two lights, truth of two ideas. The "brilliant conversation" induced by champagne is merely a flow of "superficial ideas" which are freed from the restraint of the brain's censor...
...atmosphere in the Drones' Club was thickly postprandial, a pleasant miasma of tobacco smoke, port, fizz water splashing into amber whiskey, just as Old Plum-Pelham Grenville (P. G.) Wodehouse to you-had often described...
...time of great shortage, a survey of stores around the Square reveals. The liquor situation in particular is becoming acute, with existing stocks of gin almost exhausted while the government plans to take over distilleries for war purposes. Furthermore, the manufacture of rum has been seriously curtailed, leaving whiskey and been the only liquor staples whose sale will remain unaffected...