The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions; Or, Joints In Our Social Armour
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The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions or, Joints in our Social Armour By James Runciman to be in a tap-room among honestly brutal costers and scavengers than with that sniggering, winking gang. The drink got hold, glasses began to be broken here and there, the time was beaten with glass crushers, spoons, pipes, and walking-sticks; and then the bolder spirits felt that the time for good, rank, unblushing blackguardism had come. A being stepped up and faced a roaring audience of enthusiasts who knew the quality of his dirtiness; he launched out into an unclean stave, and he reduced his ...
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- THE ETHICS OF DRINK AND OTHER SOCIAL QUESTIONS
- OR JOINTS IN OUR SOCIAL ARMOUR
- Author of "A Dream of the North Sea," "Skippers and Shellbacks," Etc
- CONTENTS
- THE ETHICS OF THE DRINK QUESTION.
- VOYAGING AT SEA
- WAR.
- DRINK.
- CONCERNING PEOPLE WHO KNOW THEY ARE GOING WRONG.
- THE SOCIAL INFLUENCE OF THE "BAR."
- FRIENDSHIP.
- DISASTERS AT SEA.
- A RHAPSODY OF SUMMER.
- LOST DAYS.
- MIDSUMMER DAYS AND MIDSUMMER NIGHTS.
- DANDIES.
- GENIUS AND RESPECTABILITY.
- SLANG.
- PETS.
- THE ETHICS OF THE TURF.
- DISCIPLINE.
- BAD COMPANY.
- GOOD COMPANY.
- GOING A-WALKING.
- "SPORT."
- DEGRADED MEN.
- A REFINEMENT OF "SPORTING" CRUELTY.
- LIBERTY.
- EQUALITY.
- FRATERNITY.
- LITTLE WARS.
- THE BRITISH FESTIVAL.
- SEASONABLE NONSENSE.
- THE FADING YEAR.
- BEHIND THE VEIL.
- Extracts from Reviews of the First Edition.
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