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No longer is drinking an art with Americans once they drank for the taste, but now they drink only for the effect. The more quick and fatal the liquor, the better they like it. They are either on the wagon or else.

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Alice-Leone Moats
Age: 81 †
Born: 1908
Born: January 1
Died: 1989
Died: May 14
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Mexico City
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