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Word: gins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wording of the billboards is familiar: "Famous, flashy and crashing kid possesses a resolute punch." When a jukebox with colored lights and boogie-woogie records arrives in Luang Nakon's brothel and the girls take to nylon blouses imprinted with headlines from a New York tabloid (GIN-CRAZED, SLAYS THREE), it becomes clear that a lot has happened since Anna met the King of Siam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Anna Doesn't Live Here | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

Cinemactor Lex (Tarzan) Barker, 34, confided to a reporter how his marriage to Cinemactress Lana Turner, 34, has converted them both into plain old homebodies: "We just have dinner at home, and never go any place. She owes me a fortune in gin rummy." Lana, said Lex, lets him hang his trophies on the wall. "Some women might stick up their noses at my African shields and my helmets and swords, but Lana's cute about it. She tries on the helmets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 22, 1954 | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

...pouring down gin-sling...

Author: By J. M. Hamilton, | Title: Fortress for Pranksters | 3/17/1954 | See Source »

Just Us Historians. In Akron, police raided a null room, inside found two chairs, a bed, a table, a dresser, three pairs of dice, twelve decks of cards, one bottle of gin and 23 men who explained that they had gathered "to discuss current events...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 15, 1954 | 3/15/1954 | See Source »

...spending most of their time touring the Mediterranean in a luxury yacht, the Armentières. They were often joined in their cruising by Mrs. Chesney's mother, who called herself "Lady" Mary Menzies. When Donald's fondness for gay company and Isobel's fondness for gin at last drove them apart in 1937, Lady Mary and her daughter went back to London, bought a large house in Ealing, and opened a boardinghouse for genteel elderly ladies and gentlemen. Donald went on to join the navy, served as a torpedo-boat commander. But he ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Not Proven | 3/1/1954 | See Source »

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