Word: ginning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While Miss Day's attorneys prepared her case, and Leo moved into a hotel, Laraine began work on a new picture for RKO. Leo followed her to the set. Between takes, they played gin rummy or held hands. When she was called to the camera, the look between Laraine and Leo stretched like buttered taffy. "I'll be waiting, sweetheart," said Leo, somewhat in the manner of a wife seeing her husband off to jail...
Into a flashy Troost Avenue gin mill in Kansas City last week wandered a lonely blonde. Like a lot of others, she had come to spill her troubles to a bosomy Negro blues singer named Julia Lee. She ordered two shots of bourbon for Julia, and a Tom Collins for herself. Julia Lee heard out the story of the blonde's wayward husband, then said with professional assurance: "Everything's going to turn out all right, honey." Then it was time for her act. From her piano, Julia beat out a boogie-woogie rhythm with her strong left...
...Gin on the Terrace. In Batavia last week some of the old, prewar hallmarks of empire were still present. The tuan besar (Dutch for pukka sahibs) sat in their white linen suits and drank fiery Bols gin on the terrace of the Harmonie Club. Every now & then in the evening their talk was disturbed by a bullet whizzing by from the lines outside the city...
...another gin, although Mrs. Hunkle protested she would get "tiddly" and then I walked her home. In her miserable little 90-cent room with its gas fire and no other heat, Mrs. Hunkle took off her atrocious hat and sat down. I didn't, since there was only one chair...
...Margie" is full of nonsense and sentiment. As anything but a long laugh for the sons and daughters of the late 20's- it's a dismal failure. But for those who drank their gin in tumblers, it's surefire. Except for Margie's drawers...