Word: gins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lady Astor: " At English ' pubs ' the latest in drinks is the ' Lady Astor' (ginger beer and gin), named after me because of my bill forbidding sale of intoxicants to minors. The ' Lady Astor ' was invented and is consumed by young persons...
...half their ordinary cargo of liquors, which will all be disposed of before reaching the threemile limit. A half cargo of liquor for the Majestic, for example, consists of 30,000 bottles of ale, 675 quarts of champagne, 375 quarts of wine, 1,500 bottles of whisky, brandy and gin, and 150 bottles of liqueurs. One report has it that British companies are asking their future passengers to specify in advance how much liquor they will require on the trip to America...
...purchase single bottles of liquors, of which we never heard. To arrange for the supply of cocktails requested would entail the stocking of a vast quantity of alcoholic materials we should never get rid of. One woman has ordered five bottles of stout, and another half a bottle of gin. On the other hand, a well-known millionaire, who is the leader of a considerable party, has ordered ten cases of magnums of champagne. But the great demand is for whisky. Scotch and Irish, in that order of preference...
...according to insurance statistics, would fail to be self-supporting at the age of 70. A meek and henpecked failure, he cherished two secret ambitions 1) to be President of These States or, failing that, 2) to be the very best postman in the world. Synthetic gin enabled him to gratify both desires, the first in what psychoanalysts call " the dream-life," the second in reality. In the act, where Frost thinks he is President, the dream-mechanism of The Poor Little Rich Girl and A Kiss for Cinderella is employed to satirize government by Babbittry...
John J. McGraw, Manager of the World's Champion New York Giants: " Some of my ball players have been throwing gin parties on the southern training trip. I fined and threatened to suspend Jack Scott and Earl Smith...