Word: ginger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is a bit of cowardice of which the rightful denizez of this lair would not approve, for I am sure he is a firm believer in standing up for his lack of principles. Principles are like ginger-ale, the paper the better...
...before the moment arrived for the booksellers' toastmaster to introduce the unofficial representative of British Conservatism, that individual was overcome by the occasion. The hospitality had been too perfect. He arose in the midst of another speaker's remarks, waved a glass of ginger ale recklessly aloft and said...
...with the dance! . . . I'm too full for utterance . . . but there's one thing I'd like to say. It is a trifle strong; illustrating what is wrong with your country. Before I tell it, any ladies not feeling very strong had best come and have some, er, ginger...
...drag out of the way of two member of the metropolitan police who thought his the skin they'd love to touch. The music was good. Something had to be. I made Aubrey Beardsley drawings on the table cloth with a gusto possessed recently by the Six and drank ginger beer between cigarettes. I might have for the moment in the dashing delightful and all that sort of thing place one reads about in tabloid newspapers coming home on the subway. I wasn't. It is an axiom that the most devilmaycare gesture allowed one now is to get arrested...
...think me inconsistent--when I have put Schopenhauer away with moth balls. I don't blame you. Far be it from me to emulate the gentleman from Lansdowne Street, especially in the spring and when ginger ale bottles are so expensive...