Word: ginned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...barleycorn. First, beer on draught, and then some good English ale; Bass No. 1 would do admirably. Then stout, not in bottles, but in the wood, and a good variety of the other malt brews; hard cider, with some Perry that is not too strong; rum, whisky, gin, and a few of the cheaper wines...
...their hair long and wool next to their skin in warm weather." *Erected in 1841 in memory of Protestant Bishops Cranmer, Latimer and Ridley, the Martyrs' Memorial is decorated with domestic crockery by Oxford undergraduates almost as often as Princeton's Christian Student is defiled with empty gin bottles...
...KLEEK-Elinor Mordaunt-Day ($2.50). Story of a South Sea "madam," by the author of Gin & Bitters...
...straw box, have their heads shampooed by trainers. Two to three weeks before fighting they spar in spurs covered with leather rolls. Oldtime English trainers fed their fowl a diet of seeds, plants, bark and roots, washed down with stale beer and ale, white wine, sack gin and whiskey. Thirsty trainers drank the mixture themselves, called it cock-bread-ale, cock-ale or cocktails...
Number Three. William ("Klondike") O'Donnell goes back to the days when gin cost $5 a fifth. No book on Chicago gangland is complete without the story of the O'Donnell brothers (WestSide) three-cornered fight with the North and South Siders. Klondike's Brother Myles and notorious Assistant State's Attorney William McSwiggin, both now dead, shot up the Capone citadel in Cicero in 1925. Of the remaining 35 public enemies, only Frank Diamond, no relation to Manhattan's late little criminal clay pigeon "Legs," is important and at the same time somewhat obscure...