Word: ginger
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Dates: during 1879-1879
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...laid him out, * all that remains for you is pleasant and profitable. You had better go to that amusing apothecary, Hubbard, whose droll advertisements you have read in the Lampoon, and take a glass of plain soda-water; it is more exciting than milk, and not so strong as ginger ale, and you may take it without fear of inconvenience. If you have any practice in such things, you may take a mild cigarette (those used for catarrh are very innocent), and it may induce the careless outsider to take you for a Sophomore...