Word: gin
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...poison than those mentioned, be sold and quaffed and dignified by custom and tradition as promoting good fellowship? Why in the name of common sense, should we not drink laudanum, "blue vitriol," dilute sulphuric acid and other such beverages if we insist on having wine, beer, whiskey, brandy and gin? The acknowledged poisons would merely hasten the result by a few years...
...stories are pleasant reading and evidence technique and training. Mr. LaVarre's tale of the night with the Bovianders is rich in local color, and resounds with the beating of barbaric drums, is redolent of gin, and in its portrayal of a quaint marriage ceremony is excellently conceived. By far the best work in the entire number is Mr. Spaulding's "Fancy." This is evidently the work of a man with no mean literary talent. Next year under the stimulus of competition from the Harvard Magazine, combined with the more liberal policy which Mr. Garrison is expected to inaugurate...
...then, the amendment must stand, questions at once arise as to its application. Assuredly the prohibition of the production, sale, and transportation of intoxicating liquors such as whiskey, gin, and rum, is a measure of which the good results far transcend any arguments as to the infringement of liberty, and the freezing of the constitution into a tissue of specific dogmas and "shall nots." Certainly the moral good to be done and the physical advantages to be gained by the measure are more than the mere retaining of the fluid and general character of a political instrument, even such...
...characters are easily recognizable. "Cigarette" is obviously Alan Seeger, and if I did not feel for the war-time purse of the CRIMSON in defending libel suits, I could catalogue a rather distinguished array of aesthetes referred to. The moral attitude of the writer is clear: he frowns upon gin-drinking and purple lights, and sneers at aesthetes who use cologne and wear fillets...