Miley Judson, a run-down alcoholic, sitting in a bar trying to light his cigarette, is given a box of matches that advertises a method for quitting drinking alcohol.

In 1937, Wilson and Smith could count 40 alcoholic men they had helped to get sober, and two years later they counted 100 members, including one woman.

She admitted to being a recovering alcoholic and drug addict, but claimed that she had been sober for more than ten years by that point, and was not using any drugs, with the exception of prescribed painkillers due to discomfort and pain from the recent extraction of her wisdom teeth.

This study recommended that patients avoid citrus fruits, tomatoes coffee, tea, carbonated and alcoholic beverages, spicy foods, artificial sweeteners, and vitamin C. It also found that many patients had reduced sensitivity to trigger foods if they consumed calcium glycerophosphate and / or sodium bicarbonate.

His relationship with his mother was rocky ; she had high expectations of him and was afraid her children might end up a dead alcoholic like her brother.

Cagney attributed the performance to his father's alcoholic rages, which he had witnessed as a child, as well as someone that he had seen on a visit to a mental hospital.

However, she was an alcoholic and often had to be brought home from Chicago bars by her husband ; she finally joined Alcoholics Anonymous.

Traditionally prepared vodkas had an alcoholic content of 40 % by volume.

" Flossie's " first, and compulsory, marriage, to an alcoholic, had been soundly condemned by her father, to the point of her disownment.

She readily admitted that she had come from an abusive, alcoholic background and struggled with alcohol problems herself.

His performance had been so convincing that Milland was beleaguered for years by rumors that he actually was an alcoholic despite the fact that he wasn't.

All four of Niven's children, as well as many of his friends, told Lord that Hjördis, unable to achieve an acting career, had affairs with other men and became an alcoholic.

" Also helping Mantle to make the decision to go to the Betty Ford Clinic was sportscaster Pat Summerall, who had played for the New York Giants football team while they played at Yankee Stadium, by then a recovering alcoholic and a member of the same Dallas-area country club as Mantle ; Summerall himself had been treated at the clinic in 1992.

Pär Nuder wrote in his book Stolt men inte nöjd (" proud but not satisfied "), released in 2008, that Persson had fallen while riding his bicycle because he was drunk after consuming large amounts of alcoholic beverages.

The Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution had ushered in a period of time known as " Prohibition ", during which the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcoholic beverages was illegal.

If there was anyone that Zapata hated more than Díaz and Madero, it was Victoriano Huerta, the bitter, violent alcoholic who had been responsible for many atrocities in southern Mexico while trying to end the rebellion.

Musicians were supplied with alcoholic refreshments, and recorded in the early hours of the morning after their evening's work in clubs and bars had finished.

Chinese under the regime had greater access to coveted wartime luxuries, and the Japanese enjoyed things like matches, rice, tea, coffee, cigars, foods, and alcoholic drinks, all of which were scarce in Japan proper, but consumer goods became more scarce after Japan entered World War II.

It had the Nebraska legislature proclaim him an admiral in the Great Navy of the State of Nebraska, as well as inundate Letterman with letters, postcards, and bribes of flowers, clothing, animals, alcoholic beverages, shredded money, and free checkups at the Wahoo Medical Center.

A Free Soul is a 1931 Pre-Code film which tells the story of an alcoholic defense attorney who must defend his daughter's ex-boyfriend on a charge of murdering the mobster she had started a relationship with ; a mobster whom her father had previously got an acquittal for on a murder charge.

Guinan maintained that she had never sold an alcoholic drink in her life.

He has had five previous wives ( two ' accidentally ' murdered ), is undischarged bankrupt, a hopeless alcoholic, extremely sexist, right-wing bigot and a recovering cocaine addict.

Some believe that Crane was not chosen because prior to the vote he had admitted to being an alcoholic and sought a leave from the House to get treatment.

In 1957 after an unfortunate incident involving her alcoholic father, a toast and a drinks trolley, the family were asked to leave the country and went to Cape Town in South Africa.

* Yoshikawa-a former truck driver, he is a hard-core alcoholic whose abusive relationship with his wife caused her to leave both him and their son, Hiroshi.

Some mummers would drink a Christmas " grog " before they leave each house, a drink of an alcoholic beverage such as rum or whiskey.

The first known title holder was John Williams ; his son, John Williams II, the third of the recorded kings, was deposed in 1900, and asked to leave the island as he had become an alcoholic.

Horrified by what he has become, Jack tells his wife Wendy that should he ever start drinking again, he will leave them one way or another, implying that he would rather commit suicide than continue living as an alcoholic.

Later, Frank and Nora go for a night out and leave Tommy with his Uncle Ernie ( Keith Moon ), a filthy, alcoholic child molester.

After his alcoholic father lost the family fortune, Ondaatje had to leave school a year from graduation.

Where did he come from ?’" Shepard also would talk about why he cast Gammon, saying: " You ’ re probably aware of the notorious father figures in my plays, alcoholic Midwesterners who leave their families and get lost in the Southwestern desert.

After Sindhu brings back JKB from his alcoholic state, JKB's friends pressurize Sindhu to leave the town and to never come back, which she does the very next day.

Massachusetts-based Hardcore Punk band Defeater has released two full length albums and one EP telling the story of an alcoholic WWII veteran and the trials and tribulations of his family.

That was when I knew that, if I stayed with the band, I'd probably end up a raging alcoholic and be found overdosed and dying in a big house in Oxford with Irish wolfhounds at the bottom of my bed.

The band also often name-checks drinks, typically alcoholic, in their songs: rum and cokes (" Daddy Don't Live in That New York City No More "), piña coladas (" Bad Sneakers "), zombies (" Haitian Divorce "), black cows (" Black Cow "), Scotch whisky (" Deacon Blues "), retsina (" Home at Last "), grapefruit wine (" FM "), cherry wine (" Time Out of Mind "), Jose Cuervo Gold Tequila (" Hey Nineteen ") and kirschwasser (" Babylon Sisters ") are all mentioned in Steely Dan lyrics.

" conversion wasn't one of those things that happens when an alcoholic goes to Alcoholics Anonymous ," David Mansfield, one of Dylan's band members and fellow-born-again Christian, would later say.

On June 26, 2006, Natapol Puthpawana quit the band, claiming that he no longer could play in venues serving alcoholic beverages due to his religion.

Guys drank many different alcoholic beverages that helped to tighten cooperation within the band.

-The band had a cartoon mascot who appeared on several promotional flyers, an alcoholic raccoon named Rinky.

Much like on the U. S., alcoholic beverages in Chile are not sold on Sunday mornings, while on election days their sale is prohibited by law during the entire day ( starting the Saturday before ).

Carter, who, according to Bookman, was an alcoholic, died sometime before the patent was granted in 1948.

Steiger grew up with his alcoholic mother before running away from home at age sixteen to join the United States Navy during World War II, where he saw action on destroyers in the Pacific.

The earliest known reference to fermented alcoholic drinks being made from pears is found in Pliny, but perry making seems to have become well established in what is today France following the collapse of the Roman empire ; references to perry making in its later heartland of England do not appear before the Norman Conquest.

After being discovered in Italy, Macy relocated back to Los Angeles where she reunited with Thorne Forrester before developing an interest in fellow recovering alcoholic, Deacon Sharpe, whom she married.

Typical Chinese alcoholic beverages have been traditionally warmed before being consumed.

When Prohibition was nationally repealed in 1933, and four days before the sale of alcohol became legal in Pennsylvania again, Pinchot called the Pennsylvania General Assembly into special session to debate regulations regarding the manufacture and sale of alcohol ; this session led to the establishment of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board and its system of state-run liquor stores, reflecting Pinchot's desire to " discourage the purchase of alcoholic beverages by making it as inconvenient and expensive as possible.

An alcoholic, Gian Gastone drank too much before the ceremony and vomited repeatedly throughout ; he had to be carried unconscious back to the Palazzo Pitti, the royal palace, on a litter.

* In the 1980s, as states in America were increasing the permitted age of drinking to 21 years, many people who were under 21 but of legal drinking age before the change were still permitted to purchase and drink alcoholic beverages.

Since the Bible prohibits Kohanim ( descendants of Aaron ) from performing the priestly blessing while intoxicated, and there is concern that Kohanim may imbibe alcoholic beverages during the Simchat Torah festivities, the blessing was moved to before the time when alcohol would be served.

Furthermore, small additions ( say 20 mg per liter ) may be made to red wine after alcoholic ferment and before malolactic ferment to overcome minor oxidation and prevent the growth of acetic acid bacteria.

As an adult, he was an alcoholic and an intravenous drug user before becoming sober in 1981.

* Ready to drink, an alcoholic or non-alcoholic beverage that requires no preparation before it can be consumed

Leno began to drink heavily after performances, and, by 1901, like his father and stepfather before him, he had become an alcoholic.

Only a few chapters pass before Coupeau is a vindictive alcoholic, with no intention of trying to find more work ; Gervaise struggles to keep her home together, but her excessive pride leads her to a number of embarrassing failures and before long everything is going downhill.

* The Light of Victory 1919 — US Espionage-Drama directed by William Wolbert depicting young alcoholic US Navy officer court-martialed for losing vital documents to German spies & exiled to Pacific island before providing sensitive information to German submarine planning to sink his former ship USS Victory

Francis ( nicknamed " Minty ") also had a troubled life ; he became an alcoholic in his early teens, triggering a downward spiral of drug and alcohol abuse, and in late 1963 he suffered a serious breakdown and was admitted to Bellevue Hospital before being transferred to Silver Hill.

Whereas Buffy has had a stable family life up until her parents ' divorce two years earlier, Faith does not know her father, and it is revealed that her mother was an alcoholic before her death.

Correcting Maggie's misguided impression that Lucas lives in a large luxurious house she has seen him at several times before, Rina shows the pair that Lucas lives in a dilapidated trailer with his alcoholic father and works as a gardener at the large house where Maggie had visited him previously.

In 1973 Audrey married alcoholic Dr. Jim Hobart before finally realizing she loved Steve.

Saloons situated near areas where alcohol was not easily obtainable frequently took the name as a literal indication to customers that this was their final opportunity to imbibe before progressing to an area where obtaining, selling or drinking alcoholic drinks was prohibited.

An apéritif ( also spelled aperitif ) is an alcoholic beverage usually served before a meal to stimulate the appetite.