Word: gins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Said he: "Inventors in this country have always been popular idols. We tell young school children about the inventions of Robert Fulton, Eli Whitney and Thomas Edison. We have been blessed by a number of men who had the spark of genius to conceive of a steamboat, a cotton gin, a dynamo or an incandescent lamp and numerous other machines and processes on which so much of life today depends. Nothing in the world is so potent with possibilities as a new idea, and really new ideas are rare and the product of genius. (Not all inventions are of this...
Eighty or thereabouts years ago when I was a Yale undergraduate (that was before the days of Harkness, when Chapel Street was but a winding lane, and gin was in its infancy (I dearly loved a good snipe hunt. With a small group of friends (the Heffeifinger boys, and, now and then, Fannie Ward) I would while away the long Connecticut afternoons, ever intent on the elusive snipe. Garbed in sundry clothing and an umbrella slickers were then a practically unknown territory, we would roam through the bills, little dreaming what the morrow held in store. Which reminds me (just...
...York, copied widely since, imposes life imprisonment upon any thrice-convicted person who is convicted a fourth time, no matter how trivial the fourth offender may seem. Lately, under Michigan's new Baumes Law, a three-time convict was sentenced for _ life when caught with one bottle of bootleg gin...
Meanwhile we are let into the secret that bootleggers have been using his house as a storing place for everything from champagne to bad gin. Kay, the bootlegging girl--oh, dear, what is the younger generation coming to?--appears on the scene, chased by bootleggers. It turns out that she had rescued Jimmie from--drowning one day when she happened to be speeding by in a mahogany speedboat, and it had been love at first sight all along although on account of complications, loyalties, and the rest of the usual good old hokum, everybody isn't happy until...
...machine of Eli Whitney† was the cotton gin. Slender teeth mounted on a revolving cylinder, like the pins on a Swiss music box, pulled cotton through a series of narrow slots. Cotton seed could not pass through the slots; cotton fibres were effectively cleaned. Where a slave picked clean one pound of lint a day, Eli Whitney's gin cleaned 50 pounds...