Word: ginning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once private domain into a super hostelry; 23 guest villas were added to the great stucco manor house-and an h was added to the mistress' first name, recalling the movie Garden of Allah. Alla objected to the spelling, but her modest protests were drowned in the gin-laced hubbub...
High in the North Atlantic sky in a three-year-old DC-6B one night last week, the foreign ministers of Russia, the U.S., Britain and France took off their jackets and settled down to talk business. The Westerners drank scotch, gin and tonic or "17 to 1" martinis; Gromyko drank Coca-Cola. The late John Foster Dulles, who put so much store by airborne diplomacy, might have derived wry satisfaction from the fact that it was his funeral that had finally broken the two-week-old impasse at Geneva, and enabled the ministers at last to talk informally...
...been a wide-open sin city and the gaudy shame of Texas since the days when Pirate Jean Lafitte made it his island playground. Prostitution flourishes in the houses of Post Office Street, one of the last unabashed red-light districts in the nation. After-hours gin mills and gambling joints thrive in defiance of Texas laws, under the tacit protection of kickback-hungry city officials. From time to time, ambitious reformers have made feeble efforts to clean up Galveston, but the town has always quickly returned to its wicked ways, partly because the tourists like it that...
...farmhouse, two of Debbie's grade-schoolboy brothers have helpfully removed the engine from his car-they are giving him, they announce, a free "ring job." At about this point, poor Tony is driven to drink (something called a Laughing Hyena: one part vermouth, two parts gin, three parts whisky). After which he of course starts to laugh like a hyena, blacks out, wakes up the next morning in Debbie's bed. "You were wonderful," she sighs adoringly. "You better get some more sleep. After last night you need it." Tony stares at the camera in horror. "What...
...Short--and, for Williams at least, is a second-rate work. The story concerns itself with Baby Doll, a delicious but nearly brainless child of twenty, who is legally though not in fact the wife of Archie Lee Meighan, a middle-aged owner of a broken-down cotton gin. Goaded beyond endurance by his wife's refusal to consummate the marriage, Meighan takes his revenge on the world by burning down the Syndicate-owned gin which has put him out of business. At that point, the competition in the form of Silva Vacarro, the Sicilian manager of the Syndicate, moves...