Word: gingering
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...peerless team of Fields, Rodgers & Hart, the plot is in the Once in a Lifetime manner, a succession of uncharitable laughs at the expense of Hollywood. Miss Lake and Mr. Whiting trek out from St. Paul to make good in the movies. Miss Lake-a lovely synthesis, one part Ginger Rogers, one part Ethel Merman-makes good first. Her fame permeates even the fastness of the Tennessee mountains, for in Scene 4 three backwoods girls (the talented, reedy-voiced Forman sisters) are aware that...
...Ginger Rogers and Allen Kearns - the Easterner whose father has banished him to the badlands. But biggest asset to the show is the person of Ethel Merman who, as a honkeytonk singer, strolls out on the stage at the Act I finale and electrifies spectators by shouting "Sam & Delilah," an extremely low-down Gershwinian num - ber with a deep blue base. It is also Miss Merman who, in another piece, croons...
...Ginger ale and other soft drinks are the biggest sellers, closely followed by frankfurters. So far this year, the sale of frankfurters has tripled over the same time last year. A new process of cooking the frankfurters has been inaugurated, and arrangements have been made to do away with the trouble of having empty bottles lying on the ground and in the Stadium. All drinks will be served in paper cups, and no one will be permitted to take any bottles away from the stands...
...Public Health Service and the Prohibition Bureau traced the poisonous Jamaica ginger (colloquially called "ginger jake," "jakey") from the consumers to distributors in Cincinnati and Johnson City, Tenn., then to the Manhattan and Boston manufacturers, who were indicted for violation of the Prohibition Amendment. The inclusion of the phosphoric acid ester of tricresol in the Jamaica ginger was an accident of careless manufacture...
...discoverers of the contaminated ginger extract cooperated with members of the Tennessee Board of Health. Although the poison now is known, doctors as yet have no cure for its paralyzing effects, which have rarely been fatal...