Word: gins
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
WILD ASSES-James G. Dunton- Small, Maynard ($2.00). Mr Dunton an immature Harvard graduate, smudges painfully. He has a turgid mind, a high-school style, scant humor, literary myopia. Concentrating on an underground foreground, he dimly depicts crass youths guzzling bad gin, shooting craps, reading cinema magazines, swapping low stories, frequenting dives and brothels, being obscurely restless and messing up their young lives generally. One logy character plays football, stays respectable, is a college success. Another (the author) achieves a half-baked perception of his contemporaries as Wild Asses and Blunderbrats, laboriously adduces the law of compensation to flappers...
...result. A much more interesting and valuable set of statistics could be obtained from a similar census of the whole college. Confronted with such figures that delightful myth, so popular among comic writers and moralists of the older generation, which patterns college life as a constant rush from gin lo Scotch must shrivel and die. A more scientific discussion of the whole problem of prohibition might be inaugurated by the gathering of detailed and accurate statistics...
...them lock up their gin...
...groups that failed to receive rooms on the second allotment were: Nicholas, Romanoff, Dry, Gin, Oshkosh, and Second Best...
...they got covered with mud. One man had the poor taste to offer them money, when the student turned away, the man inquired if that was Harvard spirit. "No." came the well-deserved rebuke. "It's the spirit of human kindness." We asked if they wouldn't have some gin or brandy for the sake of their health, and they then showed a jug of whiskey my friend and I left after a while, but those boys were still there helping many cars out of that terrible mud in the midst of pouring rain--and their reward? just...