Word: ginned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been lost for a minute. Some of them had felt a bit queasy at first, but later had dined heartily on 22 days' supply of steak, roasts, chicken, lamb curry, lobster salad and pie à la mode. They had all gained weight. In spare moments they had played gin rummy and sipped afternoon tea. Nothing to it, really, indicated Actor Morgan...
Jessica got delegates out for meetings despite the withering summer heat and a free flow of Scotch, rye, gin and beer. Every morning, as a reminder of the day's program, she had chummily-worded Mimeographed bulletins slipped under hotel-room doors. "Pullleezzzee Gentlemen," the Thursday conference bulletin began. "The session opens at 9:30 this morning. We know it's a crime on a Thursday after a Wednesday night but les affaires sont les affaires...
Spinach v. Gin. Americans who wonder what existentialism is about will find a simplified translation in the comic strip Popeye, whose "I am what I am!" is existentialism stripped of its dialectical jargon. Like Popeye, the hero of The Age of Reason keeps low company, often talks in unprintable expletives, believes supremely in his own powers of action. But Popeye grows strong on spinach; Sartre's characters in The Age of Reason feed on a pasty mixture of atheism and bad gin. The diet symbolizes existentialism's greatest weakness: the futility of attempting moral regeneration through a philosophy...
Westbrook Pegler, once famed for his post-New Year's columns ("I must not mix champagne, whiskey and gin," repeated 50 times), returned to the scene of his festivities, startled his readers with 68 lines of Lardneresque poesy about a bad night in a fancy bar. Sample...
...noon, Harvester Dupree and his four helpers rode one of the trucks over to the weed-grown yard of the cotton gin in Faxon (pop. 178). Where cotton had reigned, wheat was now king. There were their headquarters-a 27-ft. trailer, complete with electric washing machine and king-size electric refrigerator. From the trailer came the mingled smells of good Texas beef, potatoes, beets and beans cooked by Mrs. Dupree and daughter Doris Gean...