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...return to normalcy continued. Wison and his Utopian ideals were relegated to the dog house, and a sound man who would be sure to do the right things went into the White House. Not brilliant, but sound. This was the game where bootlegged liquor and bath-tub gin were given their first official recognition. They were pronounced insufficient...

Author: By John J. Reidy jr., | Title: Twenty Years of Harvard - Yale . . . A Day for Harvard Greats | 11/20/1937 | See Source »

...read large print with difficulty, writes scarcely at all. Carver Edmondson does not smoke, neither does he chew, but he admits to an occasional medical nip of gin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Mirkels | 11/1/1937 | See Source »

Harvard generally led by a good margin in Europe, for the score in England was 275 to 152 and in France 228 to 94. Representation was about equal proportionally in Japan, where there are 210 Harvard-gin and 145 Yale-gin. In China Yale has 265 graduates to Harvard...

Author: By John T. Mccutcheon jr., | Title: New York Now Center of Alumni, But Boston Still Has View of Buildings | 10/20/1937 | See Source »

...20th. Well, today I says to Mrs. MacIntosh, I says, "I don't like the looks of that boy; no sir, I don't. And if I find his clothes all over the room again or have to sweep up any more gin glasses, I've a very good mind to speak to him. You bet." Macky laughed hard at that (I see she has a new gold tooth); the old for would, since she ain't got any one as bad as Mr. Fathead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 10/20/1937 | See Source »

Juan in China, a continuation of his picaroon-hero's progress, is longer between laughs, thinned at times to the gin-&-water consistency of the late lightly lickerish Thorne Smith. Frankly a farce, Juan in China is a further disappointment to those who still hoped better things of Eric Linklater, a further confirmation to those who never expected anything better. But since by this week Juan has gone halfway home to England, hopeful readers still looked forward, thought what a really good time he and they might have if he ever gets there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Picaroon | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

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