Word: ginned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis Marlow-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). This book's suggestive jacket (by archly suggestive Peter Arno) and suggestive blurb cover what is superficially a rather naughty farce. It is actually a sermon on post-War youth, morals, manners. Its upshot: that sanity and simplicity are best, wine better than gin, old-fashioned love better than new-fangled neuroses. To Tony Buckram women are attracted as moths to a candle. He himself burns with a cold flame. He likes women and is no pervert, but they seem to him dreadfully rapacious, scarifying. Tony has had a queer, handicapped upbringing, on which...
...Manhattan, Jacob Cohen, 50-year-old furrier, was caught with a gallon of gin under his counter. Accused of selling liquor, he protested: ''I use it to clean coats," was fined...
...BATH-TUB GIN AND FIVE MINUTE WHISKY...
Preferred drinks: whiskey 24%, gin 24%, beer 20%, wine 12%, rye 10%, applejack...
Died. John M. Chapman, 74, onetime President of Gordon Dry Gin Co. of America; at Caldwell, N. J. ; of heart disease...