Word: gins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hardly conceivable that our progressive and essentially moral people will go back to a condition where we will be bone-dry in one State and souse-wet in another, and where churches and schools will elevate one city and gin mills degrade another. States' rights and local option would mean alcohol ad libitum and ad nauseam wherever the whiskey rings held political sway; and that is not a thing to be contemplated in any sort of a sincere temperance program...
Miss Baklanova goes from pianos to milk bottles and straight gin with convincing ease. The film is superbly directed...
...Helen Morgan, the "hostess," to their table and introduced her. She sat down and asked for brandy. When it came, they complimented her on its quality. She told them it ought to be good because "it costs us $6.25 a quart wholesale." She explained : "We don't handle gin because all the college boys drink gin....They generally have only about $20 to spend in an evening and bring their own gin." The Tysons & party paid $15 per pint for the $6.25-per-quart brandy. The whole check was $67.50. Agent Tyson offered to buy an interest...
This, uttered last week, was not a college proctor's description of a rowdy alumni reunion, nor a gang foreman's account of a herd of roustabouts let loose in a gin mill. .It was a description, by an officer of the .law in Pennsylvania, of an orgy last week conducted by other Pennsylvania officers of the law in defiance of a law which, they afterward observed, few persons of their acquaintance believe in anyway...
...Such is the reputation of Circus Man John Ringling for discipline and probity-he entertained President Coolidge in Washington only lately (TIME, May 14)-that none of the Ringling officials was even suspected of connivance. At Malone, the Federal men confiscated some 4,000 bottles of prime Canadian whiskey, gin, wines, beer. Acrobats had it hidden in their kimonos. A Spanish couple hid it beneath their infants in an upper berth. The trains were run on a siding for the search and as word spread of what was happening, bottles showered out of the car windows. Possession cost...