Word: gins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...common drink and an uncommon nut are both causes of severe skin inflammation, says the A.M.A. Journal. An Oakland (Calif.) man, 36, went to a party where the only drink served was gin and tonic, had five or six of them. Within two days his entire body was covered with a red or purplish rash, his face was unrecognizable, and his palms and soles were a mass of blisters. It took six days of treatment with cortisone, wet dressings and lotions before he could leave the hospital. Cause of his trouble: a rare, severe sensitivity to quinine. A Philadelphia woman...
...Monroe. Before going to Manhattan last week to grapple with his publisher, Jones discoursed long and freely about his latest goo-plus-page opus, Some Came Running, due for autumn publication. "The book," crowed Jones, "is 300,000 words longer than Eternity. The last six months I lived on gin and Miltown while finishing it. It's not only longer than War and Peace, but it has more narrative pull. It's a great novel! I know I don't look it, but damn it, it is! It's the greatest novel...
...Necessity," he said as he reached for his gin flask, "is a matter of social poition and for that matter so is point of view...
...sneered he, "This season turns my stomach with its vulgarity, and the added aroma of the nitrogenous stimulant they are plying the Yard grass with is an added guarantee." Vag stirred the gin, ice, and tonic and returned to the refrigerator...
...Vincente Minnelli has turned out half a dozen of the pleasantest comedies and musical comedies (An American in Paris, Father of the Bride) made in Hollywood since the '30s. And in Designing Woman, restricted still further by a plot that should have gone down the drain with bathtub gin, Director Minnelli has produced an uncommonly slick, prosperity-padded sequel to the emancipated-woman comedies of Depression times...