Word: gins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Geneva, which cradled Calvinism and the League of Nations and between times innocently got its name mixed up with gin, has lately gained fame in another capacity: the abortion capital of western Europe. In the little canton (pop. 200,000) which embraces the lake city, 1953 saw no less than 3,277 legal abortions, of which 1,761 were performed on nonresidents. In Geneva last year the number of legal abortions exceeded the number of live births...
...from old friends. Despite his stubbled chin and unshorn hair, Max managed to preserve a certain courtly Southern dignity, and when the news of his death got around the Village this week, there was genuine sadness. At the San Remo Cafe, Caricaturist Jake Spencer smashed Bodenheim's personal gin glass and proposed a toast. "Max was a splendid type," he said. "He used to write poetry in a booth here and then try to peddle the verse at the bar for a drink of gin...
...Poppa is so keen on scouting in the Ndege [Swahili for airplane] at 600 or something shillings a half day [about $84], which includes bumps and rolls and swooping down on the deck and wing-brushing the chulu hills, that we will shortly have no money left except for gin and cabbage...
...Hemingway got out with a cut head, his wife with two cracked ribs. This week, after cautious traveling by automobile, they settled down for a bit of rest in the town of Entebbe, in Uganda. "I feel wonderful," cried Hemingway, clutching a stalk of bananas and a bottle of gin. "I think [my luck] she is running very good...
Last week, to add to Talbert's woes just before the matches with Belgium, a Melbourne newspaper solemnly told its readers that the Americans were a champagne-guzzling bunch of happy-go-lucky nightclubbers who paid more attention to gin rummy than to tennis. Point by point, Talbert denied the charges, then posted an angry exhortation in the U.S. locker room: "Let's go, boys. Let's show...