Word: gins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Further figures to prove that students are not satisfied with anything below 90 proof, show that Rye whiskey, Gin, Rum and Brandy follow in that order on the preferred list. Running a poor second to Scotch, Rye has tallied a score of 35, while Gin and Rum find themselves in a deadlock for third with 19 votes apiece. Leading the list of favorite brands of Rye, "Shady Oak," and Hiram Walker's "Canadian Club" are fighting it out for top honors with "Guggenheim" and "G & W". "Felton's" and "Bacardi" always favorite brands of Rum have not lost their supremacy...
...book makes one sad, for almost all the wines mentioned by the author as ministers to his Dionysian joy were nineteenth century vintages, and have long since fulfilled their noble destiny. But some will derive comfort from the opinion that "Gin. . . is a very excellent, most wholecome, and, at its best, most palatable drink"; others from the realization that the twentieth century has had its good wine years, that Saintsbury learned by experiment, that there is as much ahead as in the past. Comfort will be derived, too, from the sparkle and rest radiating from every word...
Thus one night last week did an announcer at Newark's WOR preface a radio act put on by the Mount Rose Gin Distilling Co. of Trenton, N. J. Immediately thereafter a male trio called "The Sizzlers" burst into "Sweet Adeline." Mount Rose Gin was mentioned more than once...
Even though it had censored "The Sizzlers" and their gin program, WOR was taking a grave chance of losing its broadcasting license. The prudish Federal Radio Commission, which always points out that it has no powers of censorship but which nevertheless can brush an offending station off the air overnight, had just laid down the doctrine that alcohol advertisements must be kept off the air. All broadcasters were thus warned...
...there any solution as yet to the problem of disposing of the excess cotton which would be turned back on the producer at the cotton gin if the new tax on surplus goes into effect. Will it be surreptitiously sold? With a surplus be grown? Human nature thus far has resisted control almost everywhere, even in Russia, where the peasants from time to time have refused to give the government its full quota of wheat because they needed it for their food...