A Profile of the Woman Who Drinks to Excess
The typical alcoholic woman is above average in intelligence, in her
forties, married, having two children. She started drinking socially
in high school or college. Although frequently incapacitated, she can
fabricate a story skillfully and thus conceal her real physical 
conditions. She often attributes her alcoholism to connubial stress, 
boredom, or depression. A large percentage of the women give  
family histories of alcoholism. Most female drinkers would demur at the
appellation of "alcoholic"--that makes their treatment all the more
difficult.


in apple-pie order--The house was in dreadful condition when Mrs. Maslow
arrived, but when she left it was in apple-pie order.
(in neat order, good condition.)