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Word: gins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Japan's erstwhile Matsudaira was a prime favorite, especially among men. He had his gin made specially by Gordon, at 60 proof. *George Washington died without legitimate issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mr. Gann Goes Out | 4/15/1929 | See Source »

...Porcellian roster includes Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., Poet Oliver Wendell Holmes, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Nicholas Longworth, Poet James Russell Lowell, Richard Henry (Two Years Before the Mast) Dana, Novelist Owen Wister, John Jay Chapman. The club's favorite brew is a mixture of beer and gin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 1, 1929 | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...gallon, gin from $2 to $5 a bottle, rye whiskey from $3 to $6 a pint. 6) Bootleggers in Manhattan complained that the price they have to pay for protection has been doubled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Dry Wave | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...Wrong. Sin and gin will not help The Nation. Mr. Broun himself has been helped by neither. Tex Guinan has not helped him to courage, or wit, or passion or greatness. A Broadway night club is not a nursery for brave thinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New Masses v. The Nation | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...soon as we begin, we will have a shot of gin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 2/5/1929 | See Source »

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