Word: gins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Newest member of the Harvard tweedy set, with a special predilection for gin, scotch, or possibly Coca-Cola if a sufficient amount of rum is added, is a South American Coati-Mondi recently brought back from the jungles of Peru...
...Daniel Hale Williams, it was the first institution in the U.S. for training Negro nurses and interns. A number of white industrialists gave money for a frame house and 13 beds; local Negroes donated such necessities as 8 Ib. of prunes, 8 Ib. of feathers, a bottle of Holland gin, a washboard, a pair of crutches, four cakes of soap...
Paranoia & Bad Gin...
Sirs: After reading your pidgin English version of Mose Simms's departure from St. Mary's University [TIME, April 28], I want to protest the wisecrack made in the first paragraph of your story, which was apparently written after a night of struggles with paranoia and bad gin...
...music-jawsome, 43-year-old Ernst Bacon, dean of the music school at Spartanburg's Converse College-in the last two years Spartanburg has heard some resounding sounds: the opera Dido and Aeneas, by 17th-Century England's great Henry Purcell; Tchaikovsky's Eugene One gin; Pergolesi's Stabat Mater; a Mozart concerto for three pianos...