Word: gingering
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...language that such men would have used as we knew, which was not much, and, horrible to relate, were armed and equipped, not only with wooden pistols and bowie knives, but with a cigar apiece, and I am afraid that on the table before us stood a bottle of ginger-pop, which was as far as we dared to go in the direction of inebriation. We were not accustomed to estimate the permeating power of cigar smoke, whereby we were very soon given away; for there came a gentle rap at the door, and without waiting for any response...
...year and a half ago a strange affliction appeared, first in the Midwest, then in every part of the country. People found their feet, hands, necks becoming paralyzed. Victims, their consciences uneasy, called the palsy "Jake paralysis." Medical research confirmed their suspicions. Everyone afflicted was a drinker of Jamaica ginger, as an intoxicant or a medicine (TIME, March 24, 1930). Followed a frenzied search by the Government for the specific cause. Chemists eventually revealed the poison as the phosphoric acid ester of tricresol. Its inclusion in the beverage was a manufacturers' accident. Manufacturers were indicted (TIME, July...
Medicine soon reported that cure was extremely difficult. The poison had degenerated certain nerves. In many cases, where the ginger-drinking had been small, the victims recovered control of their heads and hands. But recovery from the foot paralysis has been rare. Victims raged. The Government was to blame, they reasoned. The pure-food laws if properly enforced would have protected them...
...Mack Hunter Partridge, 48, an interior decorator of Oklahoma City, conceived a United Jamaica Ginger Paralysis Victims organization. Last week his organization had some 30.000 members. Each had donated $1 or so for a fight fund. The fight is to be against the Federal Food & Drug Administration. U. S. Senators . and Representatives are being influenced to investigate the Food & Drug...
...Baumgarten, stalwart 180-pound guard who is in the front row on every play adding his ginger to the forward wall charge of the Longhorns. This Texan captain will be foremost in testing out Harvard's new central rush line...