Word: gins
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...francs for room, 135 francs for lunch and dinner, about 200 francs in necessary tips, except before dinner when I invited two business friends to the room for a drink. Somebody had given me a bottle of vermouth and the headwaiter assured me he could furnish a bottle of gin to make some Martinis. When the waiter arrived with the gin he asked me if I would mind paying for it in cash. I said I would be glad to and how much was it? 2000 francs! So this little bit of hospitality cost me just 40 cold American dollars...
...Hoyt Vandenberg is typical of many top-rank U.S. airmen. He combines the energy of an athlete with mature judgment. He is dead serious and fluent about anything having to do with aviation, reasonably interested in such lesser matters as golf (low 80s), tennis, gin rummy, Scotch highballs and good panatelas. Like most airmen of top rank, he has spent all his Army career learning and unlearning about air operations...
...money I'm allowed to earn in a year, so I will either vegetate and let ivy grow on my legs, or try to do something worth-while." Hollywood does not interest him: "It's fine for 15 days; the 16th day I start throwing empty gin bottles out of the window...
...recipe: "Go into the kitchen, get a tall glass, and put into it everything you can reach without taking more than three steps." If there is any roach powder, ant paste or canned heat within three steps, Jim is likely to mix a spot or two with the gin, brandy, whiskey and tabasco sauce. But he apparently thrives on such concoctions. At San Diego a doctor told him: "Colonel, you owe your life to a strong constitution and good, clean living." Jim smiled...
...prosperous Rio de Janeiro well-to-do wives had caught the gin rummy fever. They called it "Pif-Paf" (pronounced peef-paff). They began their games at teatime, played for high stakes. At dawn they went to bed white with exhaustion, slept with the aid of sedatives. Next teatime they began all over again. The local press reported that they were running into debt, pawning their jewels, neglecting their husbands and children...