Word: ginned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hoyt Vandenberg is typical of many top-rank U.S. airmen. He combines the energy of an athlete with mature judgment. He is dead serious and fluent about anything having to do with aviation, reasonably interested in such lesser matters as golf (low 80s), tennis, gin rummy, Scotch highballs and good panatelas. Like most airmen of top rank, he has spent all his Army career learning and unlearning about air operations...
...money I'm allowed to earn in a year, so I will either vegetate and let ivy grow on my legs, or try to do something worth-while." Hollywood does not interest him: "It's fine for 15 days; the 16th day I start throwing empty gin bottles out of the window...
...recipe: "Go into the kitchen, get a tall glass, and put into it everything you can reach without taking more than three steps." If there is any roach powder, ant paste or canned heat within three steps, Jim is likely to mix a spot or two with the gin, brandy, whiskey and tabasco sauce. But he apparently thrives on such concoctions. At San Diego a doctor told him: "Colonel, you owe your life to a strong constitution and good, clean living." Jim smiled...
...prosperous Rio de Janeiro well-to-do wives had caught the gin rummy fever. They called it "Pif-Paf" (pronounced peef-paff). They began their games at teatime, played for high stakes. At dawn they went to bed white with exhaustion, slept with the aid of sedatives. Next teatime they began all over again. The local press reported that they were running into debt, pawning their jewels, neglecting their husbands and children...
Then to Julius' for dinner and the strongest sloe gin fizzes in New York... Dropped over to West 4th, where Sterling Boso and Rod Cless room together... Bozo, an old New Orleans man himself, insisted that Louie played the river with King Oliver on the Capitol before the King went to Chicago, despite the statement of many critics to the contrary ... Caught the dinner show at Nick's, where Pee Wee comes out at night and Miff Mole looks at his watch every five minutes to make sure that he doesn't play overtime ... Then to Cafe downtown...