Word: gins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second look, parched Canadians could see that the news was not intoxicatingly good. Beer and wine would still be as short as ever; Scotch and other imported liquors would be practically nonexistent ; rye would be scarce for the time being. The increase would have to be taken largely in gin, and that would be the same old watered wartime stuff...
...Spirits. Gin, rum, brandy, blended whiskey plentiful right away. Straight bourbon and Scotch 18 months to two years away...
...fortify himself, he took a few stiff drinks of whiskey and gin. They were just a bit too stiff. Halfway up the 30-ft. flagpole, Lawson's foot slipped. He fell, heading for certain death, but the climbing stirrup caught his foot. For more than an hour, he hung helplessly upsidedown, 24 floors and a few odd feet above Richmond's shopping district...
...Russian, U.S. and British Quartermaster Corps had worked hard to make the conferees comfortable. U.S. quartermasters were proudest of all of the liquor they had ready for the President to offer his guests: Scotch, gin, bourbon, wines, cognac, even curaçao and crème de menthe...
During the season Mel spends many of his evenings talking shop - often at Toots Shor's, 51st Street restaurant in Manhattan. He is a movie, crossword puzzle and gin rummy addict, and hankers for the better eating places that specialize in bouillabaisse and oyster Rockefeller. He has also been known to fritter away a few dollars, between seasons, on the ponies...