Word: gins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hero who is expelled after saving his roommate from disgrace is varied by having a girl expelled after trying to save the honor of another co-ed who lost her virtue and walked down an elevator shaft. The survivor, after expulsion, marries the football coach. Typical shots: quartet singing, gin drinking, hockey, football, swapping fraternity pins...
Prohibition was a subject worthy of the public prints. "The Act of Parliament to prevent the selling of Gin, being to take place on Tomorrow, Mother Gin lay in State yesterday, at a Distiller's Shop in Swallow Street near St. James's Church; but to prevent the ill Consequences of such a Funeral, a neighboring Justice took the Undertaker, his Men, and all the Mourners into Custody...
...invented the cotton gin...
...Africa, for water. The old King of the Herreros went to the shore, though he was sick. To the King the Captain offered white man's medicine. All must drink. The King and his bodyguard agreed. Faithfully they drank the prescribed drink. It came in cases labeled HOLLAND GIN. After the warriors were quite senseless, 16 girls and four boys were kidnapped, to be sold as the first slaves at Jamestown, Va. Next morning the Dutchmen were far out and the Herreros could not chase them...
...Prohibition of the manufacture of whiskey, gin, absinthe and other beverages of high alcoholic content; restrictions on the importation of such beverages...