Word: ginned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year pay roll. Ever since 1913 he has played for socialites what jazzmen call "long-underwear" music, sweet and tuneful. At 18 he muscled into a Bar Harbor hotel whose dance music had been supplied by Boston Symphony men. Now Eastern dowagers would sooner serve gin and ginger ale at their parties than employ non-Davis bands: during a recent Newport season, Meyer Davis played at 59 out of 60 top-flight parties. (The eccentric 60th hostess hired Paul Whiteman.) More than half the young ladies at last month's Philadelphia Assembly-oldest annual party...
...seen a war that was to prove inconclusive. It had seen a revolution that was to lie quiescent after establishing itself in the largest country of the world. The decade which ended in 1930 was one of confusion and wasted energy-the wasted energy of gambling and gin-drinking in the U. S., of civil war in the Far East, of misdirected revolutionary effort from the U. S. S. R., of the attempt in Europe to hold resurgent peoples in check. The decade which ended this week saw the failure of that attempt and the unleashing of ruthless...
...costume or uniform. The Dutch sent word that those who attend receptions of the Governor General always go in formal European dress. Immediately, each tailor shop in town received orders for five or six small tail coats. At the reception, Colonel Itsuo Ishimoto of the mission drank more Bols gin than was good for him, became attracted by the long curved creese of a Javanese prince. The creese is more than a sword to the Javanese; it is a sacred symbol, and if it is drawn rashly and without preliminary invocations, Javanese believe that misfortune overtakes the rash drawer. Colonel...
...training camps along the West Coast, thousands of soldiers were down with flu. At Fort Lewis, Wash., about 1,400 men were confined to tents and canvas field hospitals. Popular treatment: an aspirin and a glass of gin. ^ In Hollywood almost half of the movie stars were sick in bed. Some who went to work wore surgeons' masks for protection...
Having revolutionized Brazil's shopping habits, Jim Marshall has also cracked Brazilian society. Sunday afternoon Jim serves gin and tonic to his friends in his big 15-room home at swanky Ipanema Beach...