Word: ginned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gin and jazz--now everything is gin and jazz. Why, even fourteen-year-olds go out and drink cheap liquor these days. I guess the Dionne quintuplets are about the only innocents left, but I don't know...
...Warren proposal is modeled on the cotton and tobacco restriction acts: a quota for every state and every grower, a penalty tax of ½? to ¾? per Ib. But the circumstances attending potato control are not simple. Potatoes do not have to go to a gin like cotton, nor are they bought by a few big buyers like tobacco. So collection of the tax and enforcement of quotas will be difficult. It will be more difficult because there are an estimated 3,000,000 potato growers who raise an average of less than an acre of potatoes each. Enforcement...
Twenty-seven states, the District of Columbia and three fore gin countries are represented in this third Extra Session. Massachusetts leads with 11 students, New York and California are represented by eight students each, and both Ohio and Georgia have five representatives...
...Milo Hudson Gates. Last week the chubby-cheeked Dean beheld a newspaper photograph of eight Manhattan girls practicing shaking cocktails for a benefit. Last Sunday at a special Cathedral service for the Colonial Dames of America, Dean Gates told of these "quite charming debutantes, with a background of gin and whiskey bottles and the foreground of a bar-all proudly holding up cocktail shakers-and the notice stated the debutantes 'will serve the cocktail which promises to have a truly elephantine kick.' " Driving his point home, he humphed: "I should think one of the things the present members...
While the ear of the nation was attuned to Nudism, Dr. Boone tried to fill it with rebuttal against Mr. Smith and with arguments for Nudism. Cried he: "There is more social danger to our young folks in a quart of gin than in three miles of State-censored movie film. There is a striking inconsistency between the removal of prohibition from liquor [for which Mr. Smith fought] and the placing of prohibition upon a movement which by actual results, has everywhere been hailed as a blessing and in no instances has been cited as the source of immorality...