Word: gins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Farmer's Almanac which last week made its 147th annual appearance. Published for the last two years by Little, Brown (is), it now lacks the crotchety personal stamp of Founder Robert Thomas, no longer carries temperance articles, nor illustrates them by pictures of a sinister mother mixing gin with milk to pacify the baby...
...nearly a year and a half before Reformer Tunney's outburst, D.S.I. members got along like gin and whiskey on an empty stomach, squabbling over a permanent chairman to succeed the late William Forbes Morgan. Last week they found one with enough soul to satisfy even Gene Tunney. By unanimous consent they elected as executive director Dr. Wesley A. Sturges, since 1923 professor of law at, Yale University...
...large jiggers Perfidious Albion gin...
From the time when Beery, fortified by gulps of gin from a water pail, cuts a tumor out of Lady Q's right forefoot, there is not much doubt about how Stablemates will end. However, before the climactic race, enough has happened to the chief personages involved to make any reasonably susceptible cinemaddict as worried as though he had a good-sized bet on the outcome. Good shot: Beery and Rooney pulling a harrow to pay for a night's lodging while Lady Q romps playfully in the next field...
Today they will all be fought out--the Civil War, the assault on monopolies, the clash of have's and have-not's--when the Chicago Cubs dare to meet the New York Yankees. As in the 60's, "Gin'ral" Lee, ace pitcher of the underdog National League club, will try to stop the "Damnyankees." That the Yankees are a monopolistic and "have" organization cannot be disputed, since they comprise one of the highest-salaried teams in baseball and own a farm system that makes them look impregnable for the future. Will the Ruppert beer-filled rifles riddle...