Word: gins
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...eager to trade with forbidden Benin in the interior. Acting Consul General Phillips, eager to hurry matters, sent a message to grinning black King Overami of Benin, asking permission to visit his capital, arrange a treaty. With the messenger the Briton sent the traditional present: a bottle of gin, a piece of cloth, a walking stick. King Overami appreciated the gin, but sent word that it would be unwise for a white man to come at that time as he was celebrating the anniversary of his father's death. Mr. Phillips, who had not read the works of early...
According ot the Alumni Bulletin, President Conant should seal up in a box a copy of the Teachers Oath Bill, a typical Harvard graduate, and a little gin in a bottle--they say Djinn, but we know what they mean--, and mark it, "not to be opened until...
...from a dealer in Harvard Square and consumed, case after case, as fast as it was delivered. By five there was no more good scotch in Harvard Square, and you know those Harvard boys, they just will not drink poor scotch. So they ordered a couple of gallons of gin. Soon that was gone too. One of the tutors suggested draining the alcohol out of his radiator, but there was a Radcliffe girl there who didn't like straight alcohol, and threatened to put on her overshoes and go home if they started serving...
...himself timidly and told Burlingame how sorry he was there was no more scotch. Burlingame faced him, a cold cigarette hanging limply from his flabby lips. His eyes locked tired. He had just finished giving his all for Harvard against Yale on the gridiron. But he wouldn't tolerate gin or alcohol when breaking training. They are so fastidious, those Harvard boys...
...Smoky" Saunders' story was that Mrs. Sliwinski had consumed too many gin bucks, got sick, was let out of the car. After that, said the jockey, they might have run over her, but he did not know since Schaeffer was driving...