Word: gins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...licenses, exerted through the saloon an influence on public affairs. As owners of saloons, the beer men were the chief dispensers of hotter drink. Thus that part of the dry population which remembers saloon days, does not easily distinguish between the mildness of beer and the ferocity of gin...
...Buggy Ride" (words and music by one Jules Buffano; sponsor, an obscure San Francisco firm). Swiftly crabbed age constructed buggies and horses out of beaverboard, harness out of string, snatched wheels from baby perambulators, concocted numberless impromptu window displays. Awed jazz fanciers mentioned buggies and bananas in the same gin-whiffed breath...
...Haven has been most discreet in its equinoctial diversions compared with certain residents of New Jersey for the dean of one college in that state has been forced to call the law to his aid in maintaining culture and constraining concupiscent collegians from over indulgence in hot dogs and gin neither of which is a nice complement to the other. Indeed, so violent have been the results of such admixtures that the dean has laid a curse upon road-houses and a complaint in the daily press...
...Hasty Pudding festivities will be gin at 9.30 o'clock and will last until 3 o'clock. The dance will be arranged in the rustic tradition, and all participants must be in costume. All members of the Hasty, Pudding and Institute of 1770, graduates and undergraduates, are invited...
Hollis Hall--1 to 3, Corydon and Phyllis; 4, Gin Rickey; 5, Addington Train; 6, Lady Diana Manners; 7, Ferdinand of Coburg; 8, Monsieur Nom de Plume; 17 to 28, Mellie Dunham's Fiddlers; 29, Douglas Brown; 30, Sparafucili; 31, Abious; 32, Charles Lamb...