Word: gins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Svinhufvud, mistranslated "Pig's Head," means "Boar's Head." The name derives from the family crest, an aristocratic blazon which the Svinhufvuds share with the Dukes of Argyll, Harvard's Porcellian Club and Gordon's Gin...
...that "luscious liquor" which Mr. Boyd-Carpenter found so prevalent in our academic circles, amused themselves by arranging our study in accordance with an American's concept of an Englishman's concept of an American college study. When we returned, Mr. Boyd-Carpenter found his couch surrounded by beer, gin, and whiskey bottles, the walls covered with choice excerpts from "Ballyhoo" and "College Humor." Mr. Boyd-Carpenter's conclusions bespeak the complete success of the "decor...
...they ever drink to the joys of youth and songs of pleasure. They are sad, as wine has made them sad; the fields of Bacchus have been sullied by the mundane and unworthy impious of the temple of Mercury. The cratera is empty, while cases of gin replace the dusty amphora...
...grandeur to evolve a series of serious charges. Offering as his proof a penchant for mossy Oxonian intellectuality and an unpalatable homily on football over-emphasis, he states dogmatically that "the American undergraduate has neither time nor energy for intellectual relations," that "the companionship of the opposite sex, synthetic gin, and cinema satisfy his simple needs." Leading up to is final revelation, he alleges that the American college product is "frankly unintelligent," and then, with touching faith in his premise, repeats it in epigrammatic form, thus imparting unity to his logic...
...sales man, and to William N. Reynolds, executive committee chairman, who is a great tobacco buyer, Mr. Williams must be de scribed as a great tobacco lawyer. He was born on a North Carolina farm and always had more fun watching his father's lumber mill and cotton gin than he did doing chores. Moving from the practice of law in Greensboro, N. C. to Reynolds' assistant general counselship, he dropped the assistant portion of the title in 1921, added a vice-presidency in 1925. Now 47, he conceals beneath a soft North Carolina drawl a hair-trigger...