Word: ginned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long as it inspires them to deep and shallow thinking. The cop get his man. How did he get him? Listen to the shameful story. He telephoned to the bootlegger, representing himself to be a Harvard student and ordered two quarts of whiskey and two quarts of gin, to be delivered at one of the college dormitories. The bootlegger delivered the goods in person to the cop in person and was arrested...
...League's zeal against Col. Foran apparently overreached itself. Its hirelings in search of liquor and gambling evidence raided the Foran hunting lodge at Mt. Airy, N. J. They emerged with photographs of a bar, a cash register, beer barrels, gin bottles. They found no liquor, no slot machines. New Jersey's Republican Senators Kean and Baird, incensed at the League's "chimneysweep" tactics, rose up to demand that the President reappoint their man Foran to office on Feb. 1 when his present commission was to lapse...
Some years ago a friend of mine, Joseph H. Swan III, attended the International Polo matches and at one of the clubs a bartender of some renown was asked to make up a new drink to celebrate the occasion. He used one-half grape juice, one-half gin, with a dash of creme de menthe. This mixture should be stirred slowly, and served cold. It is called a "Polo Club...