Word: ginning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sputtering over their gin and tonics, flushed with rage to the color of their rum Cokes, the loyal colonials directed a flood of letters and telephone calls to the News's managing director, Seward Toddings. He was invited to "come to the Queen of Bermuda and bring a piece of rope." He was advised that he should be operating a furnace in hell instead of a newspaper. The House of Assembly hastily voted its hearty displeasure, profound indignation, and poignant regret over the editorial. The News, visibly stiffening its upper lip. explained at length that no offense was intended...
...much fun off the course either. There is no time for home or family, no real opportunity for the single girls to find male companionship. Spare moments see the shared motel rooms fringed with drying laundry and the corner table swept clear for a pale respite of gin rummy. Sometimes movies will help kill the evening if local enthusiasts do not come through with a cocktail party-but always for the ladies, the 19th hole is the toughest...
Ghettos to Gin Rummy. Last week's peaceful strike tied up the industry from Massachusetts to Delaware. In all, 105,000 workers walked out of 2,286 shops. Retailers howled. Although most shops have 80% or 85% of their Easter clothes in stock, many were caught short of supply, and no one will be able to reorder if a popular line sells...
...weary I.L.G.W.U. official said, that "we have just become too cozy with management." The top rulers in the union and management are old cronies. Together, they had streamed from the Eastern European ghettos to the garment district sweatshops 40 years ago; together, they still play gin rummy by summer and bake on the Miami beaches on vacations in winter. And together they fixed the wage scales. When a maker brought out a new dress, a joint management-union conclave decided what share of the wholesale price would go to the union's pieceworkers for cutting and sewing...
...unwittingly stirred up a spate of rumors that he is in bad shape. A member of his household had explained Sir Winston's absence by pointing out that Churchill was "rather tired." A swift investigation by newsmen showed that Statesman Churchill is energetic enough to paint, read, play gin rummy and eat zestfully, in a packed vacation schedule. Sample lunch: hors d'oeuvres, duck with olives, French pastries, champagne, two cognacs topped off by two cigars. Churchill also drove 22 miles to dine with a Riviera neighbor, Author W. Somerset Maugham, 84, last week. Maugham observed his birthday...