Word: gins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Negro soldiers in a small café were celebrating with a final course of whiskey, gin and beer. From somewhere a beer bottle landed on a girl's head. A knife-brandishing soldier charged the Negro Military Policeman who stepped in. When the M.P. shot at the concrete floor the bullet ricocheted into the soldier's leg. M.P.s efficiently rounded up 150 soldiers, began loading them into a bus. Then a single shot turned the row into a riot. Negro Soldiers and M.P.s, a few white officers and men and some city cops joined in. Chunky Arizona Republic...
Back in the twenties Berlin looked at the world through gin-colored glasses, as did everyone else, and wrote some fine, lasting songs. However phony their sentiment, they aren't quite as threadbare and overworked as their younger brothers...
Dividend. In Chicago, Gin Moy was convicted of pinching a couple of showgirls, caught sight of them in court, ran over and pinched them again, went off to jail laughing happily...
...gin becomes synthetic rubber...
They seem to have forgotten, however, the baleful effects of their last great triumph. Most sociologists agree that the origin of the vexing "youth problem" of the 1920's was inextricably linked with Prohibition. Sporting flasks and muttering recipes for bathtub gin, American youth of the 20's indulged in more drinking than any generation before or since. Drunken youths were a common sight on the stairs of every entry in Harvard halls. The nation's youth is not only more temperate now than during Prohibition, but the Army has done an excellent job of keeping order in camp...