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...assistance. Ten minutes after closing, workmen set about removing grills, glass desk tops, accounting machines and money from the bank's vaulted granite lobby and into their place went 12,000 glasses, 700 trays, 2,000 qt. of liquor, 3,000 qt. of soda and ginger ale...
...Theodore Dreiser, Ben Hecht, Edgar Lee Masters, Burton Rascoe, John Cowper Powys, Booth Tarkington, Harry Elmer Barnes, Harry Leon Wilson and Tiffany Thayer were present one night at a dinner given in Fort's honor by Publisher J. David Stern. Fort himself said almost nothing, quietly sipped ginger ale. The others enthusiastically laid plans for a Fortean Society which would propagate Fortism to the ends of the earth. The exhilaration of that dinner passed. In 1932 Fort died in The Bronx. But one man kept his discipleship alive. This was Tiffany Thayer, whose gaudy, perfervid novels (Thirteen Men, Thirteen...
...officials discharge their public duties. So far as private misconduct was concerned, the spiciest bit was a paragraph or two that indicated that Lobbyist Dickerson had entertained two young ladies in his apartment, one of whom felt too tired from a previous party to drink anything stronger than ginger ale. As for official misconduct on the part of the Governor or bribery on the part of Lobbyist Dickerson, the records proved little. Digging into the jumble of verbiage, the closest thing to actual evidence of corruption that anyone could find was a cryptic statement by a State Senator from Pueblo...
...elaborate entertainment, which included in its cast outstanding personalities of the radio, screen and sports world, was arranged by a large committee under the direction of John F. Kennedy '40. This was greeted by an often enthusiastic audience which smoked and consumed the traditional corncob pipes, cigarettes, ginger ale, doughnuts, and ice cream. Kennedy also acted as master of ceremonies...
Time flew, and the world became wider and crueler. Over a bottle of cheap ale Griffin sat with a mawkish tramp...