Word: gins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Marriage Whirl. Corinne Griffith has, taken so many thousands on the barb of her attraction that it is doubtless idle to intimate that this adventure is one of the worst of photoplays. It is a story of the younger generation, married and very fond of gin. Great parties in expensive country houses and great scowls on the faces of the stern fathers. Nita Naldi, slimmer these days, is very wicked...
This list of payers-up should soon grow longer. Belgium recently announced her intention of sending a debt-funding commission to this country in July. Last week, Italy decided to beat Belgium?annouced she would be gin similar negotiations on June 25. Because of her sudden haste, Italy will not be able to get a debt commission to this country by the time she set?probably Ambassador de Martino will rep resent his country at the opening of negotiations...
...defense. Miss Anderson testified that, at Guantanamo, she received a package as a gift from a friend; she did not open it, but packed it in her chest on her return to this country. A customs inspector at Norfolk opened the chest, the package, found seven quart bottles-gin, rye, Scotch, Bacardi, crème de menthe. Said her counsel: "The court may wonder why her woman's curiosity did not cause her to look into the package, but her testimony is unimpeached." In 15 minutes, the court acquitted...
Liquor. Whisky, gin, beer and other alcoholic liquors are drugs-this is the decision contained in the resolution passed by the doctors, effectively reversing the stand of the Association taken in 1917, when the doctors said that liquor was not needed in the treatment of disease. "Repeal the provisions in the Volstead Act that limit the doctor to prescribing not more than a pint to a patient every ten days," the doctors demanded. The liquor resolution contained a complaint on the quality of the liquor now obtained on prescription. In a scientific paper, Dr. Roger I. Lee of Boston said...
...more diversion is about to be taken from the holiday pilgrims of Massachusetts highways. After the first of July, billboards of excessive size are to be razed, and among them those which mark the sites of first houses, Indian massacres, and colonial gin-mills. The beneficent oil company, which for several years has conspired with farmers and sign-painters to initiate passers-by into the historic past of Hicks Corners and Pumpkin Village is to be thwarted. The murderous motorist will no longer be reminded that Elljah Stockbridge was shot here by Indians, and joy-riders, pleasure bent, will forget...