Word: gins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that, "Cruyffie" earns 350,000 guilders a year through business investments and plugs for products ranging from Citroën cars to Bols gin (which he enjoys drinking laced with Coke...
Riggs moved on from marbles to administer many such lessons in tennis, golf, Ping Pong, pool, dominoes, craps, backgammon and gin rummy. Come Sunday, in Ramona, Calif., he will co-star in what may be the first nationally televised tennis hustle. At 55, he will take on Margaret Court, 30. If Bobby has his way, he will simultaneously ring up some new proceeds and put down women's tennis. The match is the result of a challenge he made two years ago to Billie Jean King. "You insist that top women players provide a brand of tennis comparable...
Proud Flesh includes, however, one fine set piece of the absurd: the mock-epic failure of a farmer named Hugo to get his cotton to the town gin, in a truck with five bad tires (counting the spare), on a road monopolized by a brindled milch cow named Trixie. Here calculated excess works in the cause of comic relief, suggesting that the future of the Southern novel may belong to the tall tale rather than further variations on the gothic. Melvin Maddocks
Beneath gilt letter-heads, scribbled diagrams indicated floor plans with University Hall or bathtub gin stills as reference points. James W. Spring Jr. '35 recalls his Wigglesworth F-11 roommate "Lewis A. DeBlois '35 took Chemistry...hence the still in the extra john. (He also caused the bell in the Catholic Church to ring thirteen but that was during his sophomore year...
...pulled up at the elegant Cathay Hotel, where the eighth-floor dining room overlooking the Whangpoo River used to be famous for its gin gimlets and beef Stroganoff-only now it was the Peace Hotel, and the ornate front entrance had been sealed off. A great tapestry of Yenan and a red and gold Mao-thought dominated the lobby. The dim lighting, bare walls and slipcovers on the old plush furniture gave the Cathay-Peace the half-open look of a lavish summer resort trying to squeak through the winter. The reception desk, once manned by British-accented Chinese concierges...