Word: gins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vermouth. Veal in Vermouth, Chicken in Vermouth. But the U.S. pours 95% of its vermouth into cocktails, most of it into the ever-dryer martini. And the wonder to Vermouthman Tribuno is that so much gets in. There once was a time when martinis had as much vermouth as gin. But now the rage is for dry martinis with dry vermouth in miniscule proportion. The very dry (six to one), the very, very dry (twelve to one) and the powder dry (25 to one) martini have taken over; there is the explosive "Montgomery" at 15 to one and the "Hemingway...
...phrase), Mary McCarthy found Trotsky her meat. Trotsky saved her from Stalin; when her Irish logic argued that the Great Heretic should be given a fair shake in the jurisprudence of the revolution, she found herself cold-shouldered by her Stalinist friends with whom she had drunk gin for Republican Spain. She, in turn, has cold-shouldered them ever since...
...mess of modernistic pottage he lives in, and the inalienable right to Swedish massage. Now his wife (Ida Lupino) is leaving him, his contract is coming up for renewal, and he is beginning to feel like a spiritual gelding-"one of those witless, sold-out guys, sitting around the gin table, swapping phone numbers and the latest dirt...
Three days afterward, a corpse was found in the muddy Tallahatchie River. The body was swollen and decomposing, the skull smashed by blows and pierced by a bullet, and a heavy cotton-gin fan was lashed to the neck. Mose Wright said the body was that of his nephew. To the surprise of many Northerners, the Tallahatchie County grand jury promptly indicted two white men for murder: Roy Bryant, 24, storekeeper and ex-paratrooper, husband of the insulted woman; and his half brother, J. W. Milam...
...stop shaking"), the Instant cocktail ("two drinks and you have your hangover immediately") and the Do-It-Yourself cocktail ("two of them and no one can help you"). And he has, to date, topped all others in the dry Martini sweepstakes: he knows a bartender who puts the gin and vermouth bottles close together and "just lets the vermouth's shadow fall on the gin...