Word: ginned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Donahue records are not as good as one would expect. The former's shuffle rhythm is uneven and listless and the arrangement not nearly as polished as Savitt's stuff usually is. Donahue's is very clever, but forced and strained in most of its passages. By the way, "Gin Mill Special" on the reverse of the Hawkins is better than all four of the others...
...stupid extremists could be found now and then, extremism of an asinine variety is not peculiar to the Jitterbug world. He adds the rather telling point that Jitterbugging to the stimulus of a couple of cokes is much better than doing the Charleston--badly--to the tune of bathtub gin...
Christmas week in New Orleans, Friends Fisher & Levi got tight on Ramos gin fizzes (a drink that was new to them), pelted a policeman with a toy elephant, placated Mrs. Fisher with an armful of knickknacks. On the Gulf, after a day and a half of freezing storm, Pilot Levi headed for Mobile Bay, beached the boat. Cook Galloway leaped ashore. "I'm never going back on that boat again," he announced, and trudged off toward Mobile. Next day the Fishers and Bushman headed back...
...Manigualts and Ravenels, who every year spent a gay social season in the city, replete with races, receptions, and balls. In lively Creole New Orlcans that city of crawfish bisque and gumbo file. Spanish pompano and mackerel, fried plaintains, baked bananas, claret and Bourbon, absinthe, Sazerac and silver gin fizz--a life of dissipation was more alluring than anywhere else on the continent. But none of the hot blood of Charleston and New Orleans flowed in the veins of Thomas Jefferson, for he was above all a child of the Age of Reason. Reason was not his God, even though...
...looks on and exults; the Catholic world looks on and exults; and even the two Princes of the Apostles,* sitting at the en trance of this royal palace, seem also to exult as if happy to see the dawn of new times. . . . We pray to God and the Vir gin Mother to extend their protection to the august sovereigns, to the royal princes and princesses, and the illustrious chief of the Italian Government and his ministers and all those present...