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Word: gins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wilberforce University to become an entertainer in the speakeasies of Kansas City, massive, coal-black Jimmy Rushing has been singing blues and swinging his fat. His hot-metal tenor, edgy enough to cut a brass team, and his unexpectedly light footwork have brought him fame among the old-style gin-garden chanteurs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ode to Jimmy | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

...maintain that the boys here still like their scotch and soda, as they have since the days of bathtub-gin," Snowball insisted. "They may be buying more beer, but they still consume their scotch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENTS TURN TO LOWLY BEER AS SCOTCH, GIN LOSE GROUND | 1/6/1943 | See Source »

...find the Black Dragon boys in the dull, stuffy, British-style Tokyo Club, drinking gin & bitters. Toyama's men were eating raw fish and seaweed in their gathering places in Shinjuku and Mukojima, where, I am certain, Mr. Byas did not have the interesting fortune to enter upon the conclaves and hear the plots. The locale and character are as different as Sherman Billingsley's Stork Club and a Harlem honky-tonk marijuana parlor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 21, 1942 | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

...that the playwrights don't realize what this war means. It is simply that its meaning has become so obvious as to be both platitudinous and commonplace. The stuff of tragedy is rapidly becoming as easy to swallow as water. And even though it might look like gin to the public, no discerning critic can get drunk on water. Anderson et ilk seem to insist on taking the short cut to universality, and it invariably leads them to brutality...

Author: By George R. Clay, | Title: FROM THE PIT | 12/15/1942 | See Source »

Anesthetics, Old Style. Anesthesia has progressed from chloroform to cyclopropane and local and spinal anesthesia. Dr. Erdmann remembers giving anesthetics for the afternoon clinics during his internship when "most of our patients were truck drivers, wharfmen and the like with strong whiskey, gin or tobacco breaths. We would clap a bootleg cone or a lamp-chimney cone over the face and push the anesthesia until the patient was deep blue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Not So Long Ago | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

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