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Word: gins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beloved humorist," a folksy monster of a television star. Fuller is presented as a platinum-plated s.o.b., the kind of man who would not only sell his grandmother but, in the end, not deliver her. In his programs he mixes corny piety with dirty jokes, drinks raw gin from a water tumbler while broadcasting. Like an alcoholic stashing away bottles in convenient places, Fuller stashes away girls in convenient apartments. He once hired a psychologist to find out what kind of music has the most relaxing effect on women and put together several "Seduction Suites," consisting of six or eight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bestseller Revisited, Sep. 26, 1955 | 9/26/1955 | See Source »

...first notable biography of William Hogarth in some 50 years provides the itinerary of Author Quennell's historical slumming tour. But his real subject is Hogarth's model, the alternately claret-flushed and gin-haggard face of 18th century England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Master Phiz-Monger | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

...board of trustees, directs fund-raising for causes ranging from the Truman library to the United Jewish Appeal. In his spare hours Feinberg finds time (and an opportunity to display Catalina Bermuda shorts) for golf with his red-haired wife, also likes to swim, play squash,' handball and gin rummy. He has few expensive tastes beyond 60? cigars and conservative, $200 custom-made suits, says: "I drive the oldest Cadillac in Westchester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Going Steady | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

Raised on gin and vitamin pills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 22, 1955 | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

Wall Street to Villa. Explorer F. A. Mitchell-Hedges, now 72, zestfully recalls a good bookful of such tall tales for gin-and-tonic reading. "Life without adventure is a state of being half dead," is Mike Hedges' philosophy, and in 1900 he turned from "staid old lady" London to seek fortunes in Wall Street and buried ruins in Honduras. Armed with a letter of introduction to Financier Jules Bache, Mike made tens of thousands on the Street and soon got close enough to the imperial J. P. Morgan to be able to inquire at a dinner party: "Railroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Man with a Brass Neck | 8/15/1955 | See Source »

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