Word: gins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another strange sight is the displacement of the traditional still life vases and fruits by the cocktail shaker, lemon and square-shouldered gin bottle with Gordon on the label...
...handsome, muscular Personality with electric eyes; a veritable storage battery of animal magnetism. After the Radio experiments of the other night in Boston, Personality dwindles to condensite. If the talking machine companies should see the point, the gentle art of falling asleep might drive out morphine and gin as a method for dodging the World crisis. A Victor record would become a substitute for an opiate. Putting his favorite record on the Victorla, any hypnotisee would recognize His Master's Voice and doze off into Elysium...
Meanwhile, in Washington, D. C., last week the French Embassy permitted itself to be vexed. Its legal, semi-annual shipment of whiskey, gin, wines and champagne had arrived with all the diplomatic seals broken and with one-fourth of the consignment missing...
...lore, and still more recently the moving picture has brought to our very eyes the delights and delusions of life in perpetual summer. A very popular, successful, and excellent play of the last two years showed the dire results of a coincidence of man, woman and a bottle of gin in a languorons tropical setting, with a steady shower of rain out-side...
...What do them papers mean by referring a me as a squeaky piccolo player, demanded Bob lampoon indignantly. Bob further expressed disgust at the misconstruction of his reception. The morning papers stated that lamp's diminutive janitor was greeted by a shower of rotaries dairy products and gin battles. This was a bit of false in formation bitterly resented by Bob "Why I was the big act," he said in defense, and the fellows only threw money...