Word: gins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What is the leading cause of alcoholism nowadays? Not the sordid living conditions that once led to "Gin Lane," say the editors of the British Medical Journal, but hangovers of old-fashioned Puritanism. "In Shakespeare's time," editorializes the Journal, "there were Puritans who condemned drinking out-and-out, and Falstaff is eloquently scornful of them: 'Nor a man cannot make him laugh; but that's no marvel, he drinks no wine...
Back in the '20s and early '30s, Bessie Smith was the rage of the blues world. She could punch a tune or wail it soft. She stood 5 ft. 9 in., weighed 210 Ibs., and she drank gin as if it were water. She died in an automobile crash in 1937. Her friends thought she was about 50, but nobody knew for certain...
...records from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. The party, celebrating the departure of a University of Texas coed who had flunked out, had begun in midafternoon some three hours earlier. In one corner, four tipsily serious coeds tried to revive a passed-out couple with more salty dog (a mixture of gin, grapefruit juice and salt). About 10 p.m., a brunette bounded on to the coffee table, in a limited striptease. At 2 a.m., when the party broke up, one carload of youngsters decided to take off on a two-day drive into Mexico (they got there all right, and sent back...
...Really like pink gin...
Died. Max C. Fleischmann, 74, heir to the Fleischmann yeast and gin companies: by his own hand (he shot himself after learning he was afflicted with an incurable disease); in Carpinteria, Calif. In 1929, he sold the business his father had built in Ohio to the House of Morgan for a reported $20 million worth of shares in Standard Brands. After that, he helped round up lawbreakers in Nevada, where he built a mansion and became an honorary cop, roamed the world in a succession of 22 luxury yachts. In 1941, he infuriated Commerce Secretary Jesse Jones by being...