Word: gingering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ginger Ale. At Toronto and Edmonton, Ontario, J. J. McLaughlin Ltd., and at Montreal, Quebec, Caledonia Springs Corp. Ltd. make ginger ale for Canada Dry Ginger Ale Inc. to sell all over the world. Canada Dry owns both the Canadian companies; the two had & have combined as Canada Dry Ginger...
...showiest sign, and purchasers come and buy. And when they have bought and become in a manner members of the firm, the company tries to find work to keep the, busy to justify the name of the house. But the original stock was watered, and no amount of artificial ginger can give it life...
Governor Christiansen of Minnesota, a bulky, dry, economically-minded man, is his friend and together they often talk politics. A lawyer, he got himself appointed legal adviser to the Federal enforcement officials in his Prohibition District. He advised some raids to put an end to the sale of ginger-ale and soda water "setups" in the nightclubs and cafes of St Paul and Minneapolis. Last week the raiders pushed ahead to catch 'leggers in their homes...
Gourmets can roll their tongues over chocolate yeast cakes (Chocolate Yeast Co.); two tons of ham, three tons of bacon (Armour & Co., etc.); Sumoro orange juice (Canada Dry Ginger Ale, Inc.); popcorn (Excel Electric Co.); Life Savers (Life Savers, Inc.); cough drops (William H. Luden, Inc.); 1,500 Ibs. of kippered herring, two tons of corned shoulder, two tons of corned spare rib, two tons of pork sausage, etc., etc. And no toothaches will mar their pleasure, since every explorer has dutifully attended a dental clinic, where even the suspicion of a cavity threatened the loss of a tooth...
Agent Lon H. Tyson told how, accompanied by his wife, he had made the acquaintance of one Louis Zalud, headwaiter at "Helen Morgan's Summer Home," who served them a pint of rye whiskey, some ginger ale, a quart of champagne and a cover charge, all for $55.75. The rye was served in ginger ale bottles. Headwaiter Zalud stirred the champagne in the glasses with a wooden stick and said: "This is to get the gas out of your champagne...