Word: ginned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...come down with the d.t.s. No salesmen of bakers' equipment set up bars to dispense alcoholic cheer. Toasts were drunk in tomato juice. Even at the biggest banquet the 30 men at the speakers' table decorously drank cocktails of milk, without even a spot of gin to take away a taste abhorred by most convention guests...
NEWS AND NEW RELEASES. Joe Sullivan will be in Providence Sunday. He's one of the great pianists that brought jazz out of Chicago in the twenties. A composer as well, Joe has created such tunes as Little Rock Gateway and Gin Mill Blues. . . . DECCA has issued an album of "white Jazz," consisting chiefly of small band jobs done several years ago, and featuring pretty nearly every white musician worth listening to. Among the offerings are Panama by Jimmy McPartland, Jazz Me Blues by the Bob Crosby Bob Cats, Swingin' on the Famous Door by the Delta Four...
...consciousness of ordinary citizens. Such a howling opposition between appearance and reality was poison for Fearing's equanimity, but meat for his pen. He became one of Bohemia's most egregious bottle-men (figuring in at least three now half' forgotten novels), and developed a gin-clear view of things that, on occasions, approximated perfect sight. His best poem, Minnie and Mrs. Hoyne ("Get the money! that's all"), is as sardonically human "a nutshell as New York City has ever been put into...
...last chance at love with a night-club saxophonist named Wally Collins, and in her fever for what was left of living, abjectly destroyed everything she had, her class, her selfesteem, even her self-deceit. Her Golgotha was a hideous gin-party in Maida Vale with Wally, a model, a radio pianist, an auto racer, a girl who stood on her head and drank two pints of beer...
...lived on the plantation of General Nathanael Greene's charming widow. She urged her whittling friend to devise a machine for cleaning cotton. Author Burlingame thinks that any Yankee tinkerer, set down amid the lazy, genteel Georgians and their seedy bolls, could have invented the cotton gin...