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...denicotinized cigars. In 1932, he was bothered by shortness of breath and pounding of his heart under exertion. Doctors diagnosed it as a "slow heart," but nothing organically wrong. They prescribed digitalis (which he has taken ever since). The ailment has never recurred. For recreation, he likes to play gin rummy or backgammon with his wife, swims (sidestroke) twice a week in the Senate pool. Back home in Grand Rapids, he lives in a biggish brick & stucco house, works at an old-fashioned rolltop desk in his book-lined...
Pass Me That Gin, Son. What is there about these two birds that makes them so much more precious than the average broiler? Well, Father Haydn's chick is absolutely enormous and interminably long-and the public loves to get good poundage for its money. It is primarily what is called a think-chick, and its little crop is crammed with quotations from Walter Pater, W. H. Auden, Machiavelli, Engels, and even Max Lerner...
...gives a bird's-eye view of American life in the boom year of 1929, complete with stockmarket quotations. It graphically describes the rotten, disgusting (but pretty juicy) goings-on-how every bathtub brimmed with forbidden gin; how the men, half-crazed with lust and easy money, rushed at the women and seduced them incessantly, on the hills, in the streets, in the valleys, and particularly on the beaches; how the women didn't care a fig, and responded to the assaults in the grossest way. But under their rumpled beds lurked such killjoys as the Gastonia strike...
...Santa Fe Railroad began daily service with its sleekest, fastest "gin rummy haven," the Super Chief. The train's new cars have radios and running ice water in every bedroom...
After the Bobbsey Twins. In Hollywood, mentioning Kinsey was one of the few ways to break up a gin rummy game. Radio comedians, ever on the alert against censorship, tested the water with such gags as: "He's at the awkward age-you know, too old for the Bobbsey Twins and too young for the Kinsey report...