Word: gins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accomplished can be seen in a delicious parody called Death Knocks, Woody's screwball homage to Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal. In Allen's piece, the game is not chess but gin rummy, and the role of the crusader is played by Nat Ackerman, a dress manufacturer. Death refuses to pay for his losses. "Why should you need money?" Ackerman inquires. Death: "What are you talking about? You're going to the Beyond-you know how far that is?" Ackerman: "So?" Death: "So where's gas? Where's tolls...
...Webster denies that. He proudly points to Watney's size and prospects: sales last year of $780 million and a predicted rise of 27% in earnings this year, from enterprises that range from 6,000 pubs in Britain to the distilleries that make Gilbey's gin and J. & B. Scotch...
...tour ended three days later with tennis and gin rummy on a Wednesday evening. While Tompkins prudently took the spectator's role, Wilson played tennis with a group of his Memphis business acquaintances, then challenged a friend to cards. Tompkins shuffled as Wilson dealt his way to victory in five straight games...
Here they all are, the rogues, doxies, gin swillers, pickpockets and highwaymen of 18th century London, singing, swaggering and skylarking their way across the stage like an animated Hogarth engraving. "All is human," one of the characters says, and it is the swirling tide of recognizable humanity that has kept this play-with-music so buoyantly alive for almost 250 years...
...wines and other low-alcohol drinks are taxed at a much lower rate than, say, Scotch. Thus lovers of good sherry, port or Bordeaux might find it worthwhile to lug more than one bottle back to the U.S. Oddly enough, local libations are not necessarily cheapest at home: Beefeater gin sells for $3.80 a quart at London's Heathrow Airport, but for only $2.50 at Paris' Orly and $2.85 at Amsterdam's Schiphol. Popular brands of Scotch generally sell for $4 to $5 per quart in Europe, Africa and Asia...