Word: ginning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...argument has lost its tone. And the fan takes over again, and the heat and the relaxed air and the memory of so many good little dinners is so many good little illegal places, with the theme of love, the sound of ventilation, the brief medicinal illusion of gin...
...blue Ford and its matching two-ton trailer cruised slowly through Cameron, S.C., past the white frame houses set amid old oaks and magnolias, past the new cotton gin walled with tight-packed bales. From the trailer, a loudspeaker intoned metallically: "Your Congressman, Hugo Sims, will speak to you in an hour from now . . . Congressman Sims brings his office to you to report, to talk over your problems...
...roaring Twenties, Princeton Charlies were quite famous for their Stuz Bearcats as well as their Raccoon Coats and hip flasks. The combination of bathtub gin and a Vassar girl was frequently rather deadly, however, and many Princetonians ended their weekends in the obituary columns...
Nothing to Do. "Around midnight, everyone crashes out into the street and runs through the fog and rain looking for something to do. There is nothing to do and the gin wears off and the thing ends in a steamy fish-and-chip shop or over a plate of spaghetti on toast...
Bred to salons in which ladies & gentlemen together debated literary and topical matters, Mrs. Trollope was outraged by a nation in which the men were happiest alone with "a gin cocktail," their feet up on the backs of chairs, talking business, business, business, and spitting, spitting, spitting, while the women sat in a room apart and tittled and tattled by the hour. She made notes of their crude, fantastic speech, little suspecting that age and custom would lend much of it such a patina that such a horrendous phrase as "go the whole hog" would be used...