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Word: alcoholic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...preacher and a doctor entered. They agreed that alcohol was a bad thing. Curtain, followed by Where is My Wandering Boy Tonight? by a male quartet. Then a shorter play, a real tearjerker, in which five youngsters watched the town drunk. Old Joe Sharp, having D. T.s-he had snakes in his sleeves, even in his boots (see cut). As he slouched off, the boys said: "We've been over to Alma Temple and signed the pledge and joined the Dry Legion Crusaders. We shall never drink a drop, and when we're old enough we are going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Bishop v. Drink | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Solitude, melancholy, the sense of death can become desperate problems; and plenty of travelers end their travels in alcohol or marriage. Yet "the number of suicides aboard trains is as small as that in church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Second Best to Love | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...wrote, "would be difficult to assemble: some were sociable, some seclusive, some stubborn, some easily influenced, some cyclothymic [manic-depressive], some schizoid [ingrown] , some intelligent, some dull and so on, ad infinitum; the only trait these people seemed to have in common was addiction to the excessive use of alcohol." Why they drank, the doctors found it impossible to discover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Normal Drunks | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...demonstrate (in 1930) that bruised lymphatic glands have regenerative power (the recuperating glands crawled right over the edge of the glass); that arteries and veins are bridged by blood vessels larger than capillaries. Other scientists, borrowing the now classic ear-window technique, have watched the effects of hormones, alcohol, serum and vaccine on the rabbits' bloodstreams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rabbit Windows | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...Peter the Great "was only great in driving force . . . probably the greatest beast who ever wore a crown." When his wife took a lover Peter had his head chopped off and placed in her bedroom preserved in alcohol. He also "developed a taste for whipping young girls in their teens." Gerhardi thinks him far less responsible than history has made him for "hacking out a window into Europe"; gives evidence of his cowardice in battle, his lack of military talent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Broad Russian Nature | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

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