Word: gins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Portent. From Egypt last week came a hopeful ray for another dawn: Cairo turned on its lights, first of the war-benighted cities to do so. From Shepherds Hotel, caravansary for restless polyglots, lights blazed out again on the Mid-East mosaic: tanned cosmopolites sipping gin & limes on Shepheard's terrace; rattletrap taxis twisting up dust from the swarming streets; soft-voiced dragomans swishing at flies and barefooted fellahin ignoring them. Dawn's early ray found Cairo unchanged, unchallenging; but the city was free from fear...
...Miss Crawford it is not much of an event to mark her departure from M.G.M., where she has been a big name ever since the gin-drenched days of Our Dancing Daughters (1928). Her new boss: Warner's. Reported inducement: "an executive...
...dance, while your favorite SERVICE NEWS columnist (modesty forbids closer identification) gives you the inside stuff on le jazz hot every Thursday at 9. (Reefers will be distributed to the mailboxes of all vipers half an hour before each broadcast. Bring your own hypodermic--we'll provide the gin. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1906, as amended, will be in effect at all times. Time and Life please copy...
Keeping Tom Waller away from bars is a difficult feat. His capacity for both food & drink is vast. A Waller breakfast may include six pork chops. It is when he is seated at the piano that he most relishes a steady supply of gin. When his right-hand man, brother-in-law Louis Rutherford, enters with a tray of glasses, Tom will cry, "Ah, here's the man with the dream wagon! I want it to hit me around my edges and get to every pound...
...funds could ever refuse him. With a piano, a bottle of gin, and a hot weather handkerchief, he is one of the most infectious men alive. With his wife Anita and their two musically gifted sons, Maurice, 15, and Ronald, 14, he lives in an eight-room English brick house in St. Albans, L.I. The house has a Hammond organ, a size B Steinway grand and an automatic phonograph with 1,500 records. Next to Lincoln and F.D.R., Fats considers Johann Sebastian Bach the greatest man in history...