Word: minting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Here in the Carolinas we are having, this week of crisis, a convention of tourist agents. Two hundred of them from all parts of the country loll on terraces of inns and country clubs, sipping mint juleps which obsequious landlords provide. Smart dames and smooth gents talk languidly in low tones, with those little glances of confidence, eloquent of the present moment only...
...Flung Huey, the sage, goes south for the day and, mint julep in hand, predicts a hard fought win for the underdog Tulane tornado over Denny Myers' revamped B. C. sugarbowlers...
Rallying around Bill Gallon's barn, the Johnston kinfolk celebrated with mint juleps, received from their host prints of the precious photo finish that had won the hallowed Hambletonian in Owner Johnston's first...
...Empire (only one million of whom are French) with a steadily dwindling French Army is trying even for the adroit General. The Moslem natives, subject to a ceaseless barrage of German propaganda, have been grumbling under the British blockade that deprives them of sugar for their much-loved sweetened mint...
Gentmun, suh, draw yo'selves up a chair and have a mint julep. You all is gonna need a stiff reenforcement to carry you all through this yere picture. Suh, what them yankees out tha in Hollywood has sayd abaht Vuhginny is a dahrect insult to us who would be willin to give oauh blood for deah ole Vuhginny. Wha, they done even had a yankee ridin a pure bred hoss--who ever saw a yankee who could ride a hoss like some of oauh southen gentmuns...