Word: ginger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This was the same old adulterant that, added by U.S. bootleggers to their "Jamaica Jake" (a drink made with tincture of ginger), caused something like 20,000 paralysis cases in Prohibition days in Ohio, Kansas and other Midwest and Southern states. About the only good thing to say for the stuff is that it is almost never fatal...
Several remarkable platters of pressed peat have been offered the reader in recent years, the more bizarre of them including At Swim-Two-Birds, by Flann O'Brien (alias Myles na gCopaleen), and The Ginger Man (TIME, June 2), by J. P. Donleavy. Ireland's Ralph Cusack, an eccentric horticulturist and ex-painter, has written Cadenza as if to prove that O'Brien and Donleavy were squares and that James Joyce was well within his rights when he borrowed the English language and returned it in a condition unfit for use by the original owners. Cadenza...
...Dinah Shore Chevy Show (NBC. 9-10 p.m.). Guests: Hymn-Shouter Mahalia Jackson, Tony Martin and Ginger Rogers. Color...
Pontiac Star Parade (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). A musical that can hardly miss. Accent on Love pokes fun at romance with a fine team of pros: Dancers Marge and Gower Champion, Comedians Elaine May and Mike Nichols, Singers Jaye P. Morgan and Danny Costello and All-Round Operator Ginger Rogers. Color...
Thurs., Jan. 15 Pat Boone Chevy Showroom (ABC, 9-9:30 p.m.). The voice is honey, the guest Ginger (Rogers...