Word: ginning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...return to normalcy had set in, with several exceptions; bootleg liquor and bathtub gin made their first appearance. The crimson emerged victorious from this game also, with the "foot" in football very evident. Charlie Buell kicked two field goals, Arnold Horween one, for the game's only scores. The next two years saw almost identical games. Yale entered the favorite, emerged beaten 10 to 3, with Charlie Buell and George Owen doing yeoman service for the winners on both occasions...
Life in The Netherlands Indies is abundant. Dutch colonials grow rich on oil and rubber, fat on Bols gin and rijsttafel ("rice-table," a huge meal which requires a dozen natives to serve). Their activities at clubs are so serious as to be nearer worship than relaxation. The social hierarchy is solid and rigid as a marble staircase. After a party at the Harmonic Club in Batavia, Java, chauffeurs must line cars up according to their masters' standing, so that 20,000-guilders-a-year may drive off before 15,000-guilders-a-year...
...when a youthful bar-comber, handsome, down-&-out U. S. engineer Bill Gregory (Robert Cummings), insults Singer Irene, she falls in love with him. Her love saves Bill from his gin-&-bitter end, sets him to piping pure water from the hills (for the peons). By the time Dirk, rather tactlessly, brings Paul to Rio after his escape from jail, Bill and Irene, happy in the thought that jungle ants and vultures have done for Paul, are all set to marry. The Freudian knot is cut by Dirk, who grapples with Paul when he tries to shoot Irene, inadvertently makes...
...George Abbott) is one of those athletic farces which have the delicacy of a subpoena and the subtlety of an alarm clock. A firm of young lawyers ready for the poorhouse ropes in a millionaire playboy overripe for the asylum. As the gilded nitwit is continuously prankish-he pours gin into milk bottles, steals peek-machines from penny arcades, drives his car up & down freight elevators, ties up girls on billiard tables-the firm of Lee, Russo & O'Rourke enjoys a continuous revenue, for a time. Then the screwball Tom (Eddie Nugent) makes off with Lawyer...
...engines arrived at the scene in time to discover small wisps of smoke curling out of the basement window of the Lampoon building. Upon entering the cellar, the smoke-eaters quickly stamped out the blaze. The only casualty suffered occurred when one of the firemen stepped on a discarded gin bottle, slipped, and fell on a beer-can opener...