Word: ginned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What ails the colleges seems to most a deep and occult mystery, but it is patent to all that the college student is alike an affliction to himself and to the world. Whether he be the gin-drinking, neurotically erotic, three-gallons-of-gas-and-a-dark-lane sort, or the sweet grind sedulously poring his neuter way through dusty tomes, or one of the infinite gradations between, he is a sorry confection to send out into the great world to take his place in the ruling class. He has no ideals worthy of the name, and of most subjects...
...world, nor to catalogue and examine the wretchedness of those Dotheboys Halls which can supply only with difficulty the paltry store of trite facts necessary for the inadequate college entrance examinations. As long as these courses are necessary the student who is interested in knowledge apart from grades or gin will be as rare as that missing link, the civilized American. As long as such courses are necessary, academic reform will only the more foolhardily attempt that palpable impossibility, the administration of a complete education in four years...
...shows because they are forced to, and they will take part in the classroom discussions as perfunctorily as they swallow the rest of the dubious instruction daily forced down their unwilling throats, but when left to themselves they are sure to attend movies containing a plentiful supply of gangsters, gin, illicit love, and shots of Miss Ginger Rogers disrobing. Even should some enterprising teacher take her pupils to a genuinely amusing cinema, the task of discussing it would undoubtedly provide some embarrassing problems. Consider, for example, a class of tenth or ninth graders toying with the moral implications of "Reunion...
...true that the newspapers and their supplements perform this function also, but all of their information is poisoned at the source by an uplift which distorts and inflames the faubourgs; if they are made privy to gin and the bright lights, they know them only as the tools of a class abstracted from their own pursuits and pointed up for envy and hostility. But a session with the Legion makes them think twice before they demand that the theatres and the distilleries should be expunged as unholy in the rural theology. It gives them vinous experience not in barns...
...have been established since the XVII century as wine merchants, and at the present time are acting as wine merchants to the royal household of England. They produce such well known brands as "Cutty Sark" and "St. James's Blend" Scotch Whiskies, and are famous for their "London Gin...