Word: gins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...part Dry Gin...
Stuck to the story of Johnny Nolen, the well-meaning, irresponsible husband, and his unsuccessful attempts to give up a happy-go-lucky life of gin colored fantasy, all the gaiety of the musical bogs down. Even the humorous sub-plot of Johnny's sister-in-law, Cissy, constantly spliced with Nolen tragedy, seems out of place...
...Mixer. In Chicago, after a ten-day hunt for Truck Driver Dumonte Ashley Parker and a missing truckload of 750 cases of gin, police finally found the truck, short 250 cases, and Parker tipsy in a nearby tavern, where he indignantly told them: "I drink whisky myself...
...fourth floors of Patton Hall, on the campus of Princeton University, four studies, eight bedrooms and a bathroom had been combined into an undergraduate's idea of a comfortable duplex apartment. There, in the days when Harding was in the White House and F. Scott Fitzgerald chased his gin-filled grail, roomed nine Princetonians (Class of '22). One of them was a fellow always in a bustle about various campus activities (Daily Princetonian, Senior Council, etc.), and who had, in the words of one of his roommates, "a short, quick walk and a funny nose." For these characteristics...
...after 13 days of marriage. Reporters interviewing the unhappy couple came away with the clearest account to date of the Manville marriage system. The trouble, said Mrs. Manville No. 9, began with a quarrel on the twelfth day of their honeymoon after Tommy had drunk two quarts of gin and a quart of Dubonnet at a single sitting. The trouble, said Tommy, was with Anita. How about wife No. 10? After the details of this divorce are cleaned up, said Manville, he might consider marrying Anita's twin sister. "I am probably very much in love with...