Word: gingering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Just as surely as a chorine poises her little finger by pure reflex action when she holds a tea cup. Which reminds me that one of them lost her poise the other night at the Lair on Lansdowne street when a gentleman stroked her head with a ginger ale bottle. Now Emily Poste aside, I cannot believe that a real gentleman would do a thing like that. Of course there are times when it would be intriguing. Haven't you wished you could place just a small bottle. Now Emily Poste aside, I cannot believe that a real gentleman would...
Though one brandy-drinking Frenchwoman might be able to beat, after a gallant defense, an American champion, U. S. tennis-followers smiled softly over their lemonades, ginger ales and ice waters when they thought of the debacle that awaited the colors of France in the national indoor tournament about to be played in the Seventh Regiment Armory, Manhattan. Leaping Jean Borotra, heavy-lidded Réné LaCoste, and brisk Jaques Brugnon, nicknamed by an unoriginal pressman "The Three Musketeers," would face, if they came through the early rounds, William T. Tilden, Vincent Richards and Francis T. Hunter. Optimism could...
Stoughton Hall--1, Chinook; 3, Joe Studious; 2, 4, 6, 8 to 16, Jamie K. Ginger; 17 to 32, The Gentlemen Rankers...
...formality of putting on his hat and sitting down, which must legally accompany such parliamentary "rising." Having no hat within reach Mr. Maclean was nonplused until a fellow member hastily improvised a paper cockade out of a copy of the Times and clapped it on his head. Thenceforward the "ginger group" of the Labor Party harassed the Government at every turn, until Premier Baldwin at length forced the matter to a vote. Then the Laborites, led by the "fire-eating" J. R. Clynes and J. H. Thomas, their "balance-wheel," in the absence of Ramsay Macdonald,* solemnly marched from...
...epidemic of temperance-drink companies, following in the highly successful wake of Coco Cola of Atlanta. Once considered local and insignificant concerns, they have sought capital in the Wall Street financial markets. Speculators are now accustomed to buy White Rock on margin or-if they dare-sell Canada Dry Ginger Ale short. Some of those temperance-drink shares have done very well by their holders in this year's stock market. Recently the Welch Grape Juice Co. for the first time since February, 1921, resumed common stock dividends by a payment of 25? a share...