Word: gins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finds mother and son doing nicely thank you at a rather too cheory, peaches-and-cream colored flat in another part of London. When Sir John returns, with a divorce promised, and still in love, Mom at first refuses to marry him, but over a couple of shots of gin with Michael, Fletcher gives the boy ideas for his own love life. Somehow the boy matures and understands, and though the audience is never sure quite how it happened, True Love conquers...
...which he returned was celebrating the Jazz Age; and drinking bootleg gin. Chambers' brother Richard, to whom he was deeply attached, committed suicide. He visited Richard's grave one winter day and found it covered with ice. He wrote: "The cold earth holds him round, a sheet of ice is over his face. My brother has no more the cold rain to face...
...place was crowded with more that people. Shades of Aunt Hagar and Sister. Kate filtered through the smoke and a lil ol' muskrat rambled in. For two solid hours in that staid Lowell House cubicle there were ladies of the new Orleans evening and the stale smell of K.C. gin. But for the grim visage of Abbot Lawrence Lowell above the fireplace it might have been any backroom in Chicago back in the days when Cicero was Cicero and not an essay in Life magazine...
...students, there would be easy talk, and plenty of wine, after dinner in Q's "Q-bicle." Q scorned teetotalers (he once got through a church luncheon by spiking his lemonade with gin). Later, in his rooms, the talk would last into the night, though Q himself might begin to undress, popping in & out of his bedroom, now shoeless, now trouserless, until he was orating in his underwear...
...favorite drink at Williams is a Purple Passion (gin plus "anything else behind the bar that's not quite finished off"). Princeton's drink is the Sea Breeze (which also begins with gin, then gets out of hand). At Yale, a girl can get away with "two suits and two dressy dresses"; at Cornell, she should have a fall suit, a cocktail dress, a sweater & skirt, an evening dress, walking shoes, dancing shoes, an evening wrap and a warm coat...