Word: ginning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they got covered with mud. One man had the poor taste to offer them money, when the student turned away, the man inquired if that was Harvard spirit. "No." came the well-deserved rebuke. "It's the spirit of human kindness." We asked if they wouldn't have some gin or brandy for the sake of their health, and they then showed a jug of whiskey my friend and I left after a while, but those boys were still there helping many cars out of that terrible mud in the midst of pouring rain--and their reward? just...
...both sexes, movies after midnight, staterooms for spending the night and a miniature reproduction of the Statue of Liberty are provided. With the exception of the ballroom and the Statue of Liberty, the use of everything costs extra. The prices for drinks include: Scotch highball, $1 Dry gin rickey, $1.50 Silver fizz, $1.50 Holland gin drinks, $2 Sloe gin buck, $2 Champagne, $15 a qt. Sparkling Burgundy, $20 a qt. Rye highball, $2 Mint julep...
William E. ("Pussyfoot") Johnson, prohibition fanatic: "Before sailing from Manhattan for Europe, I told newspapermen that in a six-months' tour of America I had seen only four intoxicated people. Said I: 'These United States are a Sunday School compared to what they used to be. This talk about gin and petting parties is, for the lack of a better word, bunk I'" Alphonso XIII of Spain: "John D. Rockefeller and I were elected foreign associate members of the French Academy of Arts?I to replace the late Joaquim Sorolla y Bastida, Spanish painter; Mr. Rockefeller to fill the vacancy...
Died. Eli Whitney, 77, president of the New Haven Water Co., direct descendant of the cotton-gin inventor, of heart disease; at New Haven...
...course of her existence, England has as stimulated every thing from Normans to gin, and quietly turned reforms inside out and revolutions upside down. Her latest achievement has been to invite four Bolshevists of the Soviet delegation in London to King Geroge's levee...