Word: ginning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only place where Anglo-Saxon reticence breaks down completely is the playhouse. In general, the Englishman or American likes to do his crying alone. He will lock himself in his own room, equip himself with smelling salts or a bottle of gin and a sponge, and have a good quiet weep. In the same way, he dislikes rising to high pitches of public hilarity. A reserved smile, or at most a genteel snicker is all he will permit himself in the presence of his associates. But under the sheltering darkness of the playhouse, he will be trapped into any extreme...
...course such a suggestion is vastly unpopular. Millions of citizens would take it as an intolerable personal grievance and an infringement of their rights to be excluded from voting because they thought Henry Ford invented the cotton gin, or that "daylight savings" was a kind of bank. Also it is doubtful whether any fair intelligence test for voters could be devised...
...minor two years ago. Most of the other soloists are old friends to the regular concert-goers: Suffice it to say that the list includes such tried and proved artists as John Powell, Frieda Hempel, Olga Samaroff, and the leaders of violins and cellos in the Orchestra, Richard Bur gin and Jean Bedetti
...streets and in the cars even yet, at the hour of midnight, reeling, liquor-addicted Harvard students attract notoriety to the college which defeated the Blue on the 26th. Shall such doings be suffered to continue in this character-building institution, this "fair Harvard"? Obtaining synthetic gin is no longer so difficult and clever a feat that those who accomplish it need show to the outside world how enlivening an effect gin has. No longer is it a truly remarkable achievement to get enough wine for boisterous merriment. Drunkard ness among students, while pitiable, is not a condition which...
...certain paragrapher has aptly pointed out that the problem of "concurrent legislation" resolves itself into the question whether "concurrent" implies a blending together, as with gin and vermouth, or one sovereign, as with whiskey and soda. A New Jersey court has decided in favor of whiskey and soda, and Governor Coolidge, with a firmness that brings a tear to dry eyes, and a lump to dry throats, yet withal wisely, has declined to dissent from the opinion...