Word: ginned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strictly military units had passed, a startling demonstration developed. Veterans came along flourishing beer steins. One New York unit lustily sang the Brown Derby's "Sidewalks of New York" while gesturing derisively at President Hoover. The President saw trundled by a little cart bearing a keg, jugs, empty gin bottles festooned in crêpe paper. He heard crowds yelling: "There's something for Hoover to swallow! What do you think of that, Mr. Hoover? Hurrah for Ritchie! Stand up, Bert! Take off your hat! Bow! You're all wet, Ritchie!" As the Wet demonstration continued under...
Married. Henry Killam Murphy of New York, architectural adviser to the Nationalist Government of China (TIME, Oct. 14). designer of Peking Union Medical College, Yale-in-China, Ginling College; and Mrs. Dagny Carter, who was given in marriage by Hon. Nelson Trusler Johnson, U. S. Minister to China: at Gin-ling College. Nanking. Architect Murphy's best man: Dr. C. T. Wang, Chinese National Government's Minister of Foreign Affairs...
...Chaplin comedies. She was a hit in Tittle's Punctured Romance, but for several years after that played in weak parts and slowly lost her reputation. Used to earning $2,500 a week, she was glad to take $150 for bit parts. Last spring her acting as a gin-soaked derelict in Anna Christie with Greta Garbo brought her international fame in a few weeks. Abroad on a holiday, she was rescued by bobbies from admirers who mobbed her in London. When in Europe she lives in pensions; she travels third cabin, having found that most steamship companies, aware...
Baltimore citizens,wondered what Director Woodcock would do about their- and his-soaking Wet city. Speakeasies in Baltimore have run openly and in great numbers for years. Good domestic gin, most popular drink, sells for $1 per pint. Maryland moonshiners supply the city with a fair grade of whiskey while the best drug store rye (cut) can be freely obtained for $5 per pint. Good beer is to be had from Pennsylvania at 35 cents the glass. There is little or no homebrewing because the liquor market is too wide open. Chesapeake Bay shipping provides wealthy Vets with expensive foreign...
...yellowish-white liquid which, as Japanese scientists ingeniously say "stands midway between wine and beer." Usual alcoholic strength 12 to 15%. The 60,000,000 Japanese drink 150,000,000 gallons of sakė yearly. Like gin, sakė contains a dash of glycerin...