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Drank "America" in gin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WEBSTER WORCESTER, | 4/9/1875 | See Source »

...couplet is intended to show the high tone prevalent among the writer's acquaintances, but it can only happen in Montreal that joy is a regular "befaller" in woe and care. The denouement is certainly very sad; but it is at once seen that "he" would prefer even a gin-cocktail to "sobbing" with the author of this truly touching poem...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 12/4/1874 | See Source »

...YOUTH beginning Latin astonished his schoolmistress by translating Virgin: Vir, a man; gin, a trap; virgin, a mantrap...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Exchanges. | 12/19/1873 | See Source »

...gin, ho mug-gin, from a forrin' sho-ore," is the way a Topeka belle renders the words of a popular song. - College Chronicle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 12/5/1873 | See Source »

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