Word: alcoholic
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...proportion of young men in college who are not total abstainers is perhaps rather large in relation to the average of a community. The proportion of those who talk about it is overwhelmingly large. The proportion of those who are addicted to alcohol is surprisingly minute...
Every year the fertility of this nation is taxed at the rate of six billions pounds of foodstuffs which go into the production of forms of alcohol which have no social nor economic value. That is enough, as our economists have shown, at a low estimate to provide sustenance for seven million men for a year. Such figures might be compiled indefinitely. They may be gained from any governmental report...
Whether Harvard will care to enter into competition with Yale along that line of student activity remains to be seen. There are college men everywhere who make a specialty of wrestling with King Alcohol whenever his majesty offers an opportunity, but their number is comparatively small. It happens, however, that the drunken student usually makes more noise than the sober one, and naturally attracts more attention in public places...
...hundred years from now, perhaps, the college drinking songs, for so many years popular with graduates, undergraduates and others without college associations, will have to be explained with diagrams to those who hear them or read their wording, and classed as relics of the days when the use of alcohol by those engaged in the pursuit of learning was not limited to scientific experiments. Boston Traveler...
...years, even if he is a more remote neighbor of the garish sun, even if he is a gentleman, yet we can get along without replies to our wireless greetings, nor smiles to our heliographed winks. We can get along without Mars. Mars is so cold he would freeze alcohol...