Search Details

Word: gins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Those favoring repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment numbered 2113, with 426 in favor of strict enforcement of existing laws. Thirty-five per cent of the thirsty consume Scotch and rye, 24 per cent favor gin, 20 per cent beer, and 12 per cent wines...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: YALE STUDENTS VOTE 5 TO 1 FOR REPEAL OF PROHIBITION | 3/18/1930 | See Source »

...Sure it's O.K., lady!" cried the clerk. "You can see for yourself. Me?I give this gin to my old father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Emporium Stuck Up | 3/17/1930 | See Source »

...Hamilton Hall the janitor displayed "A four weeks' killing." Among some forty ginger ale bottles were only six Scotch flasks and two square gin containers. Everything cleaned up in the mens' rooms comes down to us," added the exhibitor. "At a half a cent a bottle we don't make a a great deal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Future Financial Magnates Cleared of Mysterious Charges of Maltmindedness--Janitors Deny Big Cleanup on Bottles | 3/6/1930 | See Source »

...Free on $2,000 bail for peddling drinks to thirsty S. O. B. occupants, George Lyons Cassidy, famed as "The Man in the Green Hat," was arrested for the second time in four months as he was about to enter the Senators ' private domain with six bottles of gin (TIME, Nov. 11). Two hours later the same agents closed in upon William David Goldberg as he was slipping through a back door to the same building with a bundle. "Goldie," as his clients call him, dashed his package to the pavement, smashing its bottles. The agents scooped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: S. O. B. 'Leggers | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

...hope this shop will be permitted to continue operation, as I have to pay $2.00 for gin in the delicatessens in Bronxville and Tuckahoe, and $2.50 in the Wall St. district...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 24, 1930 | 2/24/1930 | See Source »

Previous | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | Next