Category: Intoxication
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5 Stages of Inebriation and a Timeline
DRUNK LINKS: THE FIVE STAGES OF INEBRIATION A TIMELINE OF DRUNK SYNONYMS ARTISTS AND ALCOHOL featured image: ‘Hip Hip Hurrah!’ Peder Severin Kroyer, Goteborgs Konstmuseum
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A Dentist and a Misfit
Meet Horace Wells, a fine young Aquarian dentist (we share a birthday). The studious and altruistic Wells volunteered (at a circus) to test the effects of nitrous oxide. He felt positively nothing and was the first patient in America to be operated under ether. Shortly thereafter he began using the stuff on his happy patients,…
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No, The Other Brother
Edwin Booth had these eyes: dark, large and full of sorrow.They tore people’s hearts out. It was said that no one had ever seen the young actor laugh. That well-earned sorrow matured into frequent drinking binges and sometimes shoddy performances as an actor, but unlike his insane and brilliant father who begot him illegitimately there…
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Benny Havens Tavern~The Fun Spot for Future Officers
When I was young my friends and I stole away from a high school class trip to get drinks, but this place looks like more fun! The future officers even wrote a song about it. “No amount of rough terrain, bad weather, or strict rules, kept cadets from their favorite watering hole. Cadets, such as…
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Drunks
I’ve had my fair share of less than stellar drunken moments running with the fast crowd and trying to keep up with my boyfriends’ drinking. And then my husband’s drinking. Such was life in the 20th century. Men and women were equals. “Anything you can do, I can do better,” was my hidden mantra when…
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The Fabulous Life of Champagne Charlie
Some people live large and don’t ask for permission. Charles Heidsieck. There’s your example. Champagne Charlie, as his adoring American public dubbed him, had drama in his veins like some of us have fear and loathing. His father rode before Napoleon into Russia on a white stallion to take orders for celebratory champagne (someone was…
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Piper-Heidsieck Champagne Flowing at the Brothel
Washington’s Civil War madame could keep a secret Piper-Heidsieck
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When People Get Nice On You
I was just popping in for a few minutes at the library when one of my new favorite librarians hailed me over to see what she’d found at a garage sale?! I come from a long line of people who want to trust others, but just don’t. It’s an affliction we wear with humor and…
Author Adrienne Morris 