Word: ginning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exactly a household word, the Grant-in-Aid people have decided that the best thing to accompany a temperance play with is bear, and they're selling it at the enticing price of $10 a glaza it almost reminds one of the days of England's great gin debauch in the early Industrial Revolution when modern methods of gin distilling were introduced and made it the preferred spirit of the working classes. For a couple of pence you got not only enough gin to knock you out till morning but a pallet of hay and a place to sleep...
...told Henry [Kissinger] I'd come out here for a year, and it's been almost two," he says. "In Italy, I would do some writing, and I'd experiment with grafting an olive to a juniper to produce an instant Martini-one that needed no gin...
Happy End, a musical currently revived by New Haven's Yale Repertory Theater, is really a larky 1929 gangster movie. The setting is Chicago in Bill Cracker's gin mill. Bill (Charles Levin) is very tough but no match for the Lady in Gray, otherwise known as "the Fly" (Elizabeth Parrish...
...supporting players takes over the stage. Laura's beloved brother, killed in Korea, returns to haunt her. Bearing a blunted spear is her husband Harry, a disappointed lawyer-politician now resigned to tinkering with the Massachusetts Democratic Party machine. In come Jim's parents, a bewildered, gin-swilling mother and a gambling father off on a lifetime losing streak. The cast swells to include an Italian immigrant, a Jewish real estate tycoon and assorted Cogan relatives. Without warning, what might have been just another serving of tea and sympathy has become a documentary on U.S. civilization...
...Eliot laughed and finished off A jereboam of gin...