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...Chicago Mrs. Mary Mellas, a native of Sparta, gave a pint of her blood to her 5-year-old daughter late one night, gave birth to another daughter the following morning...
...workman's challenge to down a pint of "bitter" almost proved the candidate's undoing. Champagne is, in fact, his drink. Shrewd, he sidestepped the challenge temporarily, practiced at home by gargling bitter beer until he could down the horrid stuff publicly without making a wry face. In Smethwick, his constituency, beer is almost an article of the workingman's faith...
...National Commission on Law Observance & Enforcement was kind to U. S. Medicine. Ever since liquor was nationally regulated, doctors have carped at the rules which limited them to 100 liquor prescriptions per 90 days and directed them to prescribe no more than one pint of "spirituous liquor'' or one quart of "vinous liquor" to a patient in any ten days. The Wickersham Commission recommended that those restrictions be abolished (TIME...
...giving a fictitious patient's name. Many a doctor has vended such legalized prescriptions to druggists or bootleggers at from $1 to $1.50 per blank. On the authority of such falsified prescriptions tipplers have been enabled to buy safe, Government-bonded whiskey at from $3 to $4.50 the pint and brandy at from $4 to $7 the pint. The $400 to $600 which the individual doctor gained yearly is a goodly sum to doctors, who average slightly more than $5,000 income from legitimate practice...
Such is life in Merrie England, but can you picture the star halfback rushing up to the bar and exclaiming. "A pint of stout, my man, and make it fast; I must go out and die for dear old Rutgers"? The Stanford Daily...