Word: gingering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jamaica. Since 1655 a British possession. British Governor. Kingston a splendid city, smart hotels. Here Negroes know and keep their place. Bananas now replace as chief export the famed rum & ginger. Jamaica was discovered by Columbus in 1494, on his second voyage to America. This time he came not with three ships, but with 14 sturdy caravels, plus three great galleons, bringing colonists and 12 zealous Benedictine missionaries headed by Father Bernardino Buil...
Extracting palm kernels, picking kola nuts, pressing out palm oil and tending ginger plants are still the toilsome daily occupations of some 200,000 slaves who were legally made free, last week, in the British protectorate of Sierra Leone, West Africa...
...despatch and cleanliness; automatically spouted into the glass after the plunk of the coin. On the second Sodamat model, there were electric lights. The next carbonated its own soda-water. The models installed last week on Broadway had lights, carbonation, electric refrigeration, neat push buttons. Concoctions: orange, grape, lime, ginger ale, cherry, root beer, fruit punch, oriental cream, raspberry...
...Millis, Mass., where Clicquot Club ginger ale is made, the famed Clicquot Club "Eskimos" sang, down by the railroad tracks, of their bubbling, tangy product. It was the 42nd anniversary of their company's founding. But more significant than that, the 40-car freight train that stood on the tracks where they sang was loaded with 400,000 bottles of Clicquot Club ginger...
Governor Alvan Tufts Fuller of Massachusetts considered the situation sufficiently significant to mark a case of Clicquot Club ginger ale for delivery to William Hale Thompson, Mayor of Chicago...