Word: gins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large luncheon-&-game party at Cambridge. (He had their tickets in his pocket.) But all gathered good-humoredly about the radios in the smoking room and afterdeck to hear the play-by-play reports. When the Hochheimer was gone the drinkers turned to rum, were finally reduced to gin before the S. S. Pan America returned to Manhattan having, as Author Elliott White Springs said, "sailed a wonderful game." Banker Harvey D. Gibson observed: "We didn't bargain for a long sea trip but we made one." Others aboard the floating grandstand: Reeve Schley, Waddill Catchings, Allan A. Ryan...
...many amusing lines and situations; but it is one of that kind makes the audience think that it would be on so much fun to go home and be whimsical and bohemian. So they are just as likely to go home, mess up the living room, drink some rotten gin, and make unbearable attempts at sprightly conversation. The next morning they regret their impulsive assininity. Such a picture is "Platinum Bloude"; it is more or less entertaining while it happens, but at the end there is the flat taste of near-success and the realization that it might have been...
...anyway in considering the following verdicts you may as well keep in mind that the infallibility of Huey is mixed with the human qualities of Forecast. The latter influence is probably no stronger than the bitters in a gin and bitters, but few will deny that bitters affect the taste if not the result. Therefore don't be surprised at small variations; the grand effect reflects the gin influence, unmistakably. Harvard 42 Virginia 0 Yale 13 Dartmouth 7 Holy Cross 7 Brown 14 Cornell 14 Columbia 6 N. Y. U. 27 Oregon 7 Michigan 27 Princeton 0 Penn 7 Lafayette...
...many months past Mike has conducted his ever growing business . . . at his new cordial shop at No. 671 Lexington Avenue. Neither the law nor depression of present business will down Mike. To go his competitors one better in the smart neighborhood of his new shop all gin has been reduced a quarter a bottle...
...Vagabond has reason to regret many of the grand old customs that have departed, but there are few which bring more sickness to the heart than the passing of Mead. Life today has become an eternal procession of gin bottles and whiskey sours. The decanter has been swept from the side board and the flagon from the wine closet. Men no longer love the good things, they follow after the bitter...