Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time at all she was being perfunctorily tossed into the drink by five bemused freshmen. Then, just in case the photographers missed the picture, Cotter rushed her into a dingy back room where the same freshmen hoisted her again and smiled. This time they didn...
After the staff had finished the night's work, they gathered in nearby Lorenzo's, the office pub, to drink things over. They talked loudly, drank vigorously, and tried to laugh often. When City Editor Wayne Adams walked behind the bar for a moment, someone cheered: "Look-you've got a job already." But for all the forced jokes they felt disillusioned and lost. In a few hours, the wake was over; the lights went out at Lorenzo's for the night, and at the Star for good...
...biggest long-range need is for research, Hirsh believes. Science still does not know why some people can drink safely and others cannot. The underlying cause may be psychological (e.g., immaturity) or physiological (e.g., a constitutional weakness). Excessive drinking costs the U.S. $1 billion a year in lost wages, jails, relief, etc., but the total spent for research in alcoholism is less than $500,000. Says Hirsh: "This glaring paradox continues year in & year out despite the fact that excessive and problem drinking affects the lives of almost as many people as tuberculosis, cancer and infantile paralysis combined...
From these, long-accepted opinions many modern physicians dissent. Manhattan Allergist Joseph Harkavy of Mt. Sinai Hospital goes a step farther. Gout is not necessarily due to rich food & drink, he thinks; it may be due to something that gets into noses as well as into gullets...
...until just a half hour before the jazz gave way to Bach last night. At that time Miller, with a 37 and a half hour total, conceded to Harrington, who had a 44-hour, 20-minute record. The victor's prize will be all the hour he can drink at one sitting...