Drink (81 page)
Authors: Iain Gately
353 “Carry A. Nation, prophetess of God”:
Ibid., p. 211.
Ibid., p. 211.
353 “the largest missionary field in the world”:
Ibid., p 256.
Ibid., p 256.
353 “a school of vice to a great extent”:
Ibid., p. 267.
Ibid., p. 267.
354 “I now feel that this great wave”:
Ibid., p. 303.
Ibid., p. 303.
355 “controlled six Congresses”:
Kobler, p. 182.
Kobler, p. 182.
355 “In America we are making”:
Sinclair, p. 62.
Sinclair, p. 62.
356 “Probably, certainly, more than fifty percent”:
Ibid., p. 64.
Ibid., p. 64.
356 “I ALCOHOL INFLAMES THE PASSIONS”:
Ibid., p. 65.
Ibid., p. 65.
356 “From that December day in 1913”:
Kobler, p. 201.
Kobler, p. 201.
357 “comparatively few alcoholics”:
John Barleycorn, or Alcoholic Memoirs
(1913), Jack London, Signet Classics edition, New York, 1990, p. 17.
John Barleycorn, or Alcoholic Memoirs
(1913), Jack London, Signet Classics edition, New York, 1990, p. 17.
357 “let me warm by their fires”:
Ibid., p. 36.
Ibid., p. 36.
358 “talked with great voices”:
Ibid., p. 37.
Ibid., p. 37.
358 “All the no-saying and no-preaching”:
Ibid., p. 115.
Ibid., p. 115.
358 “The trouble I had with the stuff ”:
Ibid., p. 202.
Ibid., p. 202.
358 “The only rational thing”:
Ibid., p. 115.
27 IN THE CHALK TRENCHES OF CHAMPAGNEIbid., p. 115.
360 “the individual man is in all cases free”:
“Rum in the Trenches,” Tim Cook,
Legion Magazine,
Defence Today, September/October 2002.
“Rum in the Trenches,” Tim Cook,
Legion Magazine,
Defence Today, September/October 2002.
360 “It surprises me when”:
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer,
Siegfried Sassoon, Faber and Faber, London, 1997, p. 18.
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer,
Siegfried Sassoon, Faber and Faber, London, 1997, p. 18.
360 “Under the spell of ”:
Cook.
Cook.
361 “to take the taste of dead men”:
Ibid.
Ibid.
361 “The gas was phosgene”:
Williams, p. 187.
Williams, p. 187.
361 “the ‘No Rum Division’”:
Sassoon, p. 122.
Sassoon, p. 122.
361 “estaminets”:
Her Privates We,
Frederic Manning (1929), Serpent’s Tail edition, London, 1999.
Her Privates We,
Frederic Manning (1929), Serpent’s Tail edition, London, 1999.
362 “We have the right to get”:
Under Fire,
Henri Barbusse (1916), Penguin Classics edition, Trans. Robin Buss, London 2003, p. 21.
Under Fire,
Henri Barbusse (1916), Penguin Classics edition, Trans. Robin Buss, London 2003, p. 21.
362 “To drink some wine from the South”:
Ibid., p. 128.
Ibid., p. 128.
362 “there were liberal helpings”:
Storm of Steel
(1920), Ernst Junger, Trans. Michael Hofmann, Penguin Books, London 2003, p. 12.
Storm of Steel
(1920), Ernst Junger, Trans. Michael Hofmann, Penguin Books, London 2003, p. 12.
3
62 “By day, the young people”:
Ibid. p. 16.
62 “By day, the young people”:
Ibid. p. 16.
363 “such libations after”:
Ibid., p. 140.
Ibid., p. 140.
363 “Whole industrial societies were”:
The Penguin History of the Twentieth Century,
J. M. Roberts, Penguin, London, 1999, p. 250.
The Penguin History of the Twentieth Century,
J. M. Roberts, Penguin, London, 1999, p. 250.
364 “we are fighting Germans, Austrians”:
Cornell, p. 184.
Cornell, p. 184.
364 “refrain from drinking beer”:
Ibid., p. 187.
Ibid., p. 187.
365 “harvested like grapes”:
Champagne,
Don and Petie Kladstrup, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, 2006, p. 163.
Champagne,
Don and Petie Kladstrup, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, 2006, p. 163.
366 “the soberest, cleanest”:
Sinclair, p. 128.
Sinclair, p. 128.
367 “inebriated comics”:
The Doughboys,
Laurence Stallings, Popular Library edition, New York, 1964, p. 106.
The Doughboys,
Laurence Stallings, Popular Library edition, New York, 1964, p. 106.
367 “I went over to Major Bailey’s”:
Elmer Hess, May 31, 1918, diary online at
www.landscaper.net/ww1memoirs.htm#1st
%20Lieut.%20 Elmer %20Hess,%2015th%20Field%20Artillery.
Elmer Hess, May 31, 1918, diary online at
www.landscaper.net/ww1memoirs.htm#1st
%20Lieut.%20 Elmer %20Hess,%2015th%20Field%20Artillery.
Soviet prohibition:
A History of Vodka,
William Pokhlebkin, Trans. Renfrey Clarke, Verso, London, 1992.
28 AMPHIBIANSA History of Vodka,
William Pokhlebkin, Trans. Renfrey Clarke, Verso, London, 1992.
370 “the dry workers throughout the country”:
Baron, p. 300.
Baron, p. 300.
370 “Brewery products fill refrigerator”:
Sinclair, p. 133.
Sinclair, p. 133.
371 “Dear Mr Palmer”:
Baron, p. 305.
Baron, p. 305.
371 “around the sangerfests”:
Sinclair, p. 132.
Sinclair, p. 132.
371 “not really enact prohibition”:
Ibid., p. 171.
Ibid., p. 171.
372 “Every Congressman knows”:
Kobler, p. 210.
Kobler, p. 210.
373 “a discontent and disregard for law”:
Sinclair, p. 182.
Sinclair, p. 182.
373 “The reign of tears is over”:
The Great Illusion,
Herbert Asbury, Doubleday & Co., New York, 1950, p. 144.
The Great Illusion,
Herbert Asbury, Doubleday & Co., New York, 1950, p. 144.
374 “They would come wobbling”:
Kobler, p. 259.
Kobler, p. 259.
374 “three tremendous popular passions”:
Sinclair, p. 198.
Sinclair, p. 198.
376 “You sent in an order for gin”:
Kobler, p. 249.
Kobler, p. 249.
377 “There are not many ladies”:
Murdock, p. 110.
Murdock, p. 110.
377 “It is outrageous”:
Ibid., p. 99.
Ibid., p. 99.
377 “They are athletic”:
Ibid., p. 110.
Ibid., p. 110.
377 “the only American invention”:
PJ, p. 707.
PJ, p. 707.
378 “dancing academies, drugstores”:
Kobler, p. 234.
Kobler, p. 234.
379 “Trays with bottles”:
Sinclair, p. 271.
Sinclair, p. 271.
379 “that he did drink occasionally”:
Murdock, p. 99.
Murdock, p. 99.
379 “compared unfavorably with those of garbage”:
Sinclair, p. 199.
Sinclair, p. 199.
379 “the master mind of the Federal”:
Kobler, p. 297.
Kobler, p. 297.
380 “The cost and quality of post-Volsteadian”:
Sinclair, p. 251.
Sinclair, p. 251.
380 “science of compelling men to use more”:
“Things Are in the Saddle,” Samuel Strauss,
The Atlantic Monthly,
November 1924, pp. 577-88.
“Things Are in the Saddle,” Samuel Strauss,
The Atlantic Monthly,
November 1924, pp. 577-88.
381 stewed to the gills:
“The Lexicon of Prohibition,” Edmund Wilson, March 9, 1927, in
The American Earthquake: A Documentary of the Twenties and Thirties
(1958).
“The Lexicon of Prohibition,” Edmund Wilson, March 9, 1927, in
The American Earthquake: A Documentary of the Twenties and Thirties
(1958).
381 “Don’t shoot, I’m not a”:
Sinclair, p. 335.
Sinclair, p. 335.
381 “nearly three million gallons of sacramental wine”:
Ibid., p. 304.
Ibid., p. 304.
382 “In 1928 one buyer bought 225 carloads”:
“The Volstead Act: Rebirth and Boom,” Ruth Teiser and Catherine Harroun, in
California Wine.
“The Volstead Act: Rebirth and Boom,” Ruth Teiser and Catherine Harroun, in
California Wine.
383 “a great social and economic experiment”:
Sinclair, P. 315.
Sinclair, P. 315.
383 “If Al [Smith] wins tomorrow”:
Ibid., p. 318.
Ibid., p. 318.
384 “I make my money by supplying a public demand”:
The Americans: The Democratic Experience,
Daniel J. Boorstin, Vintage Books, New York, 1974, p. 84.
29 LOSTThe Americans: The Democratic Experience,
Daniel J. Boorstin, Vintage Books, New York, 1974, p. 84.
385 “Wine inspires gaiety, strength, youth”:
Mon Docteur le Vin
(1936), Trans. Benjamin Ivry, Distributed by Yale Unversity Press, New Haven, 2003, p. 11.
Mon Docteur le Vin
(1936), Trans. Benjamin Ivry, Distributed by Yale Unversity Press, New Haven, 2003, p. 11.
385 “That’s what you are. That’s what you all are”:
A Moveable Feast,
Ernest Hemmingway (1936) Arrow Books, 2004, p. 18.
A Moveable Feast,
Ernest Hemmingway (1936) Arrow Books, 2004, p. 18.
386 “grape varieties hallowed by local”:
PJ, p. 478.
PJ, p. 478.
386 “Urban and rural people can”:
Ivry, p. 1.
Ivry, p. 1.
386 “radioactive properties”:
Ibid., p. 2.
Ibid., p. 2.
386 “American teetotaller”:
Ibid., p. 6.
Ibid., p. 6.
386 “If you drink Chablis with your oysters”:
Ibid., p. 4.
Ibid., p. 4.
387 “We were able to note that among”:
Ibid., p. 18.
Ibid., p. 18.
387 “Of all the supplies”:
“Wine and Health in France, 1900-1950,” Kim Munholland, in
Alcohol: A Social and Cultural History,
Ed. Mack P. Holt, Berg, Oxford, 2006, p. 77.
“Wine and Health in France, 1900-1950,” Kim Munholland, in
Alcohol: A Social and Cultural History,
Ed. Mack P. Holt, Berg, Oxford, 2006, p. 77.
387 “the French race would lose”:
Ibid., p. 79.
Ibid., p. 79.
387 “water tends to thicken”:
Ivry, p. 13.
Ivry, p. 13.
387 “Wine takes its revenge on those”:
Ibid., p. 14.
Ibid., p. 14.
387-
88 “Since Prohibition, the Americans”:
Ibid., p. 17.
88 “Since Prohibition, the Americans”:
Ibid., p. 17.
388 “The exquisite corpse”:
Manifesto of Surrealism,
André Breton, 1924.
Manifesto of Surrealism,
André Breton, 1924.
388 “Our own nation . . . passed”:
Exile’s Return,
Malcolm Cowley Penguin edition, New York, 1994, p. 47.
Exile’s Return,
Malcolm Cowley Penguin edition, New York, 1994, p. 47.
388 “In Europe . . . we thought of wine”:
Hemingway, p. 97.
Hemingway, p. 97.
390 “At this time Zelda”:
Ibid., p. 108.
Ibid., p. 108.
390 “I would give anything if I hadn’t”:
Tender Is the Night,
Scott Fitzgerald, Scribner Paperback Fiction edition, New York, Introduction, p. xv.
Tender Is the Night,
Scott Fitzgerald, Scribner Paperback Fiction edition, New York, Introduction, p. xv.
391 “The favorite drink at that time”:
The Thirsty Muse: Alcohol and the American Writer,
Tom Dardis, Ticknor & Fields, Boston, 1989, p. 42.
The Thirsty Muse: Alcohol and the American Writer,
Tom Dardis, Ticknor & Fields, Boston, 1989, p. 42.
392 “brilliant men, beautiful jazz babies,”:
Sinclair, p. 336.
Sinclair, p. 336.
392 “drinking scenes, manufacture or sale of liquor”:
“The Movies and the Wettening of America: The Media as Amplifiers of Cultural Change,” Robin Room,
British Journal of Addiction
83:11-18, 1988.
“The Movies and the Wettening of America: The Media as Amplifiers of Cultural Change,” Robin Room,
British Journal of Addiction
83:11-18, 1988.
392 “get on the first train”:
Sinclair, p. 337.
Sinclair, p. 337.
392 “this vivid picture of ultramodern youth”:
Alcohol in the Movies, 1892- 1962,
Judy Cornes, McFarland & Company, Inc., Jefferson, North Carolina, 2006, p. 37.
Alcohol in the Movies, 1892- 1962,
Judy Cornes, McFarland & Company, Inc., Jefferson, North Carolina, 2006, p. 37.
392 “those who come to laugh”:
Room.
Room.
392 “for the vast audience”:
Ibid.
Ibid.
393 “it was the motion picture”:
Ibid.
Ibid.
393 “on the boards of businesses”:
Sinclair, p. 103.
Sinclair, p. 103.
394 “these wet women, though rich most”:
Ibid., p. 358.
Ibid., p. 358.
395 jake leg: “
Jake Leg: How the Blues Diagnosed a Medical Mystery,” Dan Baum,
New Yorker,
September 15, 2003.
Jake Leg: How the Blues Diagnosed a Medical Mystery,” Dan Baum,
New Yorker,
September 15, 2003.
395 “at the time best suited for their adoption”:
Wickersham Report, available online at:
www.drugtext.org/library/reports/wick/Default
. html.
Wickersham Report, available online at:
www.drugtext.org/library/reports/wick/Default
. html.
398 “since it was wet below and dry on top”:
Sinclair, p. 386.
Sinclair, p. 386.
398 “first, by reason of the great need”:
Baron, p. 320.
Baron, p. 320.
398 “No other state shall take away”:
Kobler, p. 353.
Kobler, p. 353.
399 “My first in thirteen years”:
Ibid., p. 384.
30 CRIME AND PUNISHMENTIbid., p. 384.
401 “It is almost unknown that Hitler”:
The Hitler No-one Knows (Hitler wie ihn keiner kennt)
Heinrich Hoffmann, Berlin: “Zeitgeschichte” Verlag, 1932.
The Hitler No-one Knows (Hitler wie ihn keiner kennt)
Heinrich Hoffmann, Berlin: “Zeitgeschichte” Verlag, 1932.
401 “whoever is not bodily and spiritually”:
“A Sober Reich? Alcohol and Tobacco Use in Nazi Germany,” Jonathan Lewy,
Substance Use and Misuse,
41: 1179-95, p. 1186.
“A Sober Reich? Alcohol and Tobacco Use in Nazi Germany,” Jonathan Lewy,
Substance Use and Misuse,
41: 1179-95, p. 1186.
401 “whoever suffers from severe alcoholism can be sterilized”:
Ibid., p. 1185.
Ibid., p. 1185.
402 “wine, the pride of France”:
“Mon Docteur le vin, Wine and health in France, 1900-1950,” Kim Munholland, in Holt, p. 84.
“Mon Docteur le vin, Wine and health in France, 1900-1950,” Kim Munholland, in Holt, p. 84.
403 “in cafés and restaurants on Tuesdays”:
Ibid., p. 139.
Ibid., p. 139.
404 “Special Cuvée for the Wehrmacht”:
Wine and War: The French the Nazis,and France’s Greatest Treasure,
Don and Petie Kladstrup, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 2001, p. 105.
Wine and War: The French the Nazis,and France’s Greatest Treasure,
Don and Petie Kladstrup, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 2001, p. 105.
404 “Who cares? It’s not as if ”:
Ibid., p. 93.
Ibid., p. 93.
404 “a very hot country”:
Ibid., p. 94.
Ibid., p. 94.
404 “in the old days, the rule was plunder”:
Ibid., p. 54.
Ibid., p. 54.
405 “The Führer has ordered”:
The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide,
Robert Jay Lifton, Macmillan Books, London, 1986, p. 157.
The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide,
Robert Jay Lifton, Macmillan Books, London, 1986, p. 157.
405 “Many members of the Einsatzkommandos”:
Ibid., p. 159.
Ibid., p. 159.
405 “The selections were mostly”:
Ibid., p. 193.
Ibid., p. 193.
405 “would ask, ‘How can these thing’ ”:
Ibid., p. 196.
Ibid., p. 196.
406 “It is the business of the government”:
Cornell, p. 197.
Cornell, p. 197.
407 “A pub, or public house”:
Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain 1942,
Bodleian Library, Oxford, 1994.
Instructions for American Servicemen in Britain 1942,
Bodleian Library, Oxford, 1994.
408 “The Germans have . . . drunk the wine”:
Instructions for British Servicemen in France 1944,
Bodleian Library, Oxford, 2005.
Instructions for British Servicemen in France 1944,
Bodleian Library, Oxford, 2005.
409 “American officers are bringing wines”:
“Why War Was Raged over RAF’s Brandy Run, Neil Tweedie,
Daily Telegraph,
March 24, 2004.
“Why War Was Raged over RAF’s Brandy Run, Neil Tweedie,
Daily Telegraph,
March 24, 2004.
410 “Russians are absolutely crazy about vodka”:
Berlin: The Downfall,
1945, Anthony Beevor, Penguin Books, London 2003, p. 36.
Berlin: The Downfall,
1945, Anthony Beevor, Penguin Books, London 2003, p. 36.
410 “Hello my nearest and dearest ones”:
Ibid., p. 349.
Ibid., p. 349.
411 “the sort used for cheap jewelry”:
Ibid., p. 400.
Ibid., p. 400.
411 “being carried out feet”:
Whisky,
p. 129.
31 THE BOTTLEWhisky,
p. 129.
413 “May you have your wish and die in your sleep soon”:
A Moon for the Misbegotten,
Eugene O’Neill, Nick Hern Books edition, London, 1992.
A Moon for the Misbegotten,
Eugene O’Neill, Nick Hern Books edition, London, 1992.
414 “the idea I cherished in my heart”:
Malcolm Lowry, September 1948, preface to the French edition of
Under the Volcano.
Malcolm Lowry, September 1948, preface to the French edition of
Under the Volcano.
414 “Closing his eyes again”:
Under the Volcano,
Malcolm Lowry, Penguin Modern Classics, London, 2000, p. 343.
Under the Volcano,
Malcolm Lowry, Penguin Modern Classics, London, 2000, p. 343.
415 “He is a real Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”:
Ch. 2, Alcoholics Anonymous online:
www.aa.org/bigbookonline/
.
Ch. 2, Alcoholics Anonymous online:
www.aa.org/bigbookonline/
.
415 “The fact is that most alcoholics”:
Ch. 2, AA.
Ch. 2, AA.
416 “To anyone who has ever been”:
Jack Alexander,
The Saturday Evening Post,
April 1, 1950.
Jack Alexander,
The Saturday Evening Post,
April 1, 1950.
416 “stress the spiritual feature freely”:
Ch. 7, AA.
Ch. 7, AA.
418 Vitamin B
3
: “
Niacin and its Amide,” A. Hoffer, MD, Ph.D., text online:
www.doctoryourself.com/hoffer_niacin.html
.
3
: “
Niacin and its Amide,” A. Hoffer, MD, Ph.D., text online:
www.doctoryourself.com/hoffer_niacin.html
.
422 “Turned out to be willful, difficult”:
Gene Vincent, Mick Farren, Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll, Robinson, London, 2001, p. 46.
Gene Vincent, Mick Farren, Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll, Robinson, London, 2001, p. 46.
422 The evolution of Rock and Roll:
Country: The Twisted Roots of Rock and roll,
Nick Tosches, Da Capo Press edition, New York, 1996.
Country: The Twisted Roots of Rock and roll,
Nick Tosches, Da Capo Press edition, New York, 1996.
422 Disease Theory of alcoholism
: “The Cultural Context of Psychological Approaches to Alcoholism,” Stanton Peele,
American Psychologist,
39, 1984, 1337-351.
32 RECONSTRUCTION: “The Cultural Context of Psychological Approaches to Alcoholism,” Stanton Peele,
American Psychologist,
39, 1984, 1337-351.
425 “to believe in wine [was] a coercive collective act”:
Mythologies,
Roland Barthes, Trans., Annette Lavers, Vintage Books edition, London, p. 59.
Mythologies,
Roland Barthes, Trans., Annette Lavers, Vintage Books edition, London, p. 59.
427 “Apart from the many other difficulties”:
George Orwell, “As I please,”
Tribune,
August 18, 1944.
George Orwell, “As I please,”
Tribune,
August 18, 1944.
430 “Not for him the slow, gracious wandering”:
Lucky Jim,
Kingsley Amis (1954), Penguin Classics edition, London, 2000, p. 61.
Lucky Jim,
Kingsley Amis (1954), Penguin Classics edition, London, 2000, p. 61.
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