Word: whiskeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past 17 years on a ramshackle farm in Lancaster County, Pa., two aging Mennonites, Henry ("Henner") and George Landis have collected old knick-knacks from nearby farms and hamlets. Everything their thrifty neighbors had to sell, from cracked millstones to old whiskey bottles, the Landis brothers bought and stored away...
...Whiskey is one of the cheapest and best painkillers known to man." So reported Dr. Harold George Wolff of Cornell last week to the Association of American Physicians meeting at Atlantic City. Earlier doctors, he said, prescribed whiskey freely but were finally forced to discard it for "moral and ethical considerations...
...their experiments, Drs. Wolff, James D. Hardy and Helen Goodell tried a mixture of two ounces of 95% grain alcohol in a glass of ginger ale on themselves, found that it raises the "threshold" of pain 45% for two hours. Two ounces of 90-proof whiskey will turn the same trick. If a five-grain tablet of aspirin is added, any pain can be dulled for four hours. Dr. Wolff urged his colleagues to return to the use of whiskey for "persons suffering continuously," especially cancer victims. Said he: "It is cheaper than morphine. ... Of course alcohol is habit-forming...
...Grande River. I was rushing through the hotel lobby in Santa Fe one very cold night and met Colonel Donovan. He said: "Where are you going in such a hurry?" I said: "I am going up to Major Burges' room and get me the biggest drink of Bourbon whiskey that ever came out of El Paso-come on and go with me." He said: "No, however much I would like to, yet I carry a commission in the Department of Justice and I have never taken a drink in the United States since I carried that commission, and will...
...gift, and all went well until soon after Christmas the girl decided to leave. However, when she gathered her belongings together she discovered that one umbrella, one pair of slippers, and one house-coat were gone. The family said that they would return the articles only when the whiskey was paid...