Word: gins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eight-year-old, baseball-playing tomboy in the South Side black belt, her piano teachers could not wipe off her unconscious grimaces. But for a long while she managed to hold the rest of her contortions in check. An agent got her a job in a Dearborn Street gin mill-the kind of place where she could show up in sweater and skirt and had to keep her purse on top of the piano-and soon she was a big name in jazz, playing the top spots across the country...
Variety for its own sake reaches into every corner of U.S. life. Even when ordering a martini-once a simple concoction of gin and vermouth cum olive -today's drinker must specify whether he wants it dry, extra dry or desiccated ; with lemon peel, olive or onion; straight or on the rocks; with domestic or foreign gin (high or low proof) or vodka, etc. Ford, which started with a single model car, now offers millions of combinations of color, interior fabric, power, styling and accessories in its autos, could theoretically run at full production for a year and never...
...with intimate green lanterns and a sign that reads "No Stags Or Loiterers." Behind the bar, English tavern scenes appear under glass panes on the wall and quart beer bottles are displayed on the liquor shelves. When a student ambles over from the shuffleboard machine to order a sloe gin fizz, the curiosity shown toward this beverage by the others at the bar may compel him to pass the drink around, but he is repaid by the management with a free glass of beer...
Belafonte Sings the Blues (Victor LP). In his first recorded excursion into the music "with which I have the strongest identification," Singer Belafonte movingly re-creates the bawdy humor, the gin and jailhouse misery of the men and women who created the blues...
...woke up in this world of sin, Heaven be praised, it was raining gin...