Word: gins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Capra tells the teary tale, raggedy Annie has an iron kidney and a golden heart. People think she is selling apples just to make gin money. Little do they know that the burlapidated old bag is (violins can now be heard sobbing on the sound track) An Unwed Mother. Yes, the dear old girl is living on Gordon's and garbage, and sending every lousy nickel to a Spanish convent, where her wide-eyed, ever-loving daughter lives with some kind old nuns who teach her to be a lady and shield her from the awful truth about...
Quite a Difference. Another crop with hefty props is cotton, and in the delta country around Hollandale, Miss., some cotton farmers this year picked two bales to the acre, almost double the past average. Cotton gins ran 18 hours a day, and wagons were backed up waiting to reach the gin. Hollandale Appliance Dealer J. W. Fore, who is also the town's mayor, already is reaping the result. "One man who lost a television set he bought from me to the finance company last year came in and bought a new stove and a dining room suite...
...while the hyperbole count was down, the sound of superlatives was as loud as ever. Examples: "World's most obedient bed" (a mattress firm), "newest and purest" (a car), "most useable, liveable, likeable" (another car), "most mysterious" (a cosmetic), "most heavenly drink on earth" (a blend of gin, herbs and fruit flavoring). Said New Yorker Advertising Director A. J. Russell Jr., drawing on the wisdom of 33 years' experience: "We never win completely...
Guardian Spirit. As the Queen's plane touched the ground, a 21-gun salute boomed out. Wearing a cream-colored lace dress and a matching suede hat, the Queen shook hands warmly with a smiling, white-suited Nkrumah. A white-robed fetish priest then poured a tot of gin on the ground as a libation to the gods to ensure the Queen a safe visit. Said one onlooker: "Osagyefo needs that libation for safety more than Her Majesty does...
...Editor Forgue from his massive correspondence of 15,000. "Of my inventions," he once wrote, "I am vainest of Bible Belt, booboisie, smuthound and Boobus americanus." The list is revealing. It bears the date and the outdatedness of the '20s, along with such storied fossils as bathtub gin, the Black Bottom and the Stutz Bearcat. The fate of a successful iconoclast is to be buried with the icons he smashed...