Word: gins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fastest Gin...
...short time ago TIME [June 29] had a full-page ad of sloe gin. At 84 years of age I thought something slow would about fit me, so I bought a bottle. Naturally I took a drink. It tasted so good, I took another. It was so fine, I called in a friend and we had a couple more. Pretty soon it began to show its speed...
...Slow gin! Good Lord! It's the fastest damn stuff I ever met; and I have met some rapid liquor in my 51 years in the tropics...
After many years of Spanish, my English may be a bit dubious and probably is, as the only other English-speaking person here is a Jamaica Negro with an Oxford accent, which mixes me worse than the gin...
...cleaner condition than the bed. ... In the kitchen it was very evident that John Barleycorn reigns supreme. . . . Fifteen or 20 bottles of beer and ale, one quart of whiskey (unopened) and a fifth of gin, partly consumed, adorned the buffet. The table was strewn with dirty beer and whiskey glasses...