Word: gins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According ot the Alumni Bulletin, President Conant should seal up in a box a copy of the Teachers Oath Bill, a typical Harvard graduate, and a little gin in a bottle--they say Djinn, but we know what they mean--, and mark it, "not to be opened until...
...from a dealer in Harvard Square and consumed, case after case, as fast as it was delivered. By five there was no more good scotch in Harvard Square, and you know those Harvard boys, they just will not drink poor scotch. So they ordered a couple of gallons of gin. Soon that was gone too. One of the tutors suggested draining the alcohol out of his radiator, but there was a Radcliffe girl there who didn't like straight alcohol, and threatened to put on her overshoes and go home if they started serving...
...himself timidly and told Burlingame how sorry he was there was no more scotch. Burlingame faced him, a cold cigarette hanging limply from his flabby lips. His eyes locked tired. He had just finished giving his all for Harvard against Yale on the gridiron. But he wouldn't tolerate gin or alcohol when breaking training. They are so fastidious, those Harvard boys...
...Smoky" Saunders' story was that Mrs. Sliwinski had consumed too many gin bucks, got sick, was let out of the car. After that, said the jockey, they might have run over her, but he did not know since Schaeffer was driving...
...offered tempting terms in the name of Power of Trinity, asked from 25? to 50? as an enlistment fee. Meanwhile, on the vague frontier between many a U. S. Harlem and Little Italy, excited black curbstone orators brought scowls to swarthy brows by such appeals as: "Stop buying your gin from Italian saloonkeepers! Every shorty [nip] of gin you buy from an Italian means bullets bought by Mussolini to slaughter our brothers in Africa...