Word: gins
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Representative Niland, of East Boston, that Harvard be punished by having its buildings taxed, a plea in extenuation might be offered in the fact that Harvard's "goodies" have been conventionally represented for years in the Lampoon as elderly harridans not above snitching a nip of the marster's gin. Still, even this might not be regarded in some circles as so very extenuating after all. --Baltimore...
...SALOON IN THE HOME-Ridgely Hunt & George S. Chappell-Coward-McCann ($2).* Compilers Hunt & Chappell put up a blatant front of impartiality on the Wet & Dry question. At the top of every page they reprint some moral tale or verse from some such temperance sourcebook as No Gin Today, Anecdotes from the Platform, Temperance Annual; then counter at the bottom with recipes for drinks. The scheme, more ingenious than its execution, is helped somewhat by pseudo-Victorian pseudo-engravings by Artist John Held Jr. Like all rummagings in the attic, this one recovers some rare antiques; the full version...
...used to keep extra-proof gin in his Washington golf locker to the immense satisfaction of young U. S. State Department employes...
...Recipe: one part orange juice, two of Calvados gin, one of apricot brandy, a dash of grenadine...
...therefore, beer containing 3% or 4% of alcohol by volume is not intoxicating." "A cordial or liqueur," he continued, "such as curagao or benedictine, although it may contain 50% of alcohol, is not intoxicating, for in common practice such beverages are consumed only in very small amounts. But whiskey, gin or rum, having approximately the same alcoholic content, are frequently taken at a rate which results in the absorption into the blood within an hour of enough centimetres of alcohol to intoxicate." Although Pedagog Yandell did not mention wine in his list of good cheer, yet Yale was also wine...