Word: ginning
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Last week George appeared before the Kefauver committee in Washington and for an hour and 55 minutes repeated his story coolly, if not enthusiastically. He told how as a patrolman he and his buddies had shaken down nightclubs and gin mills for allowing them to stay open after hours. Now & then, he sprinkled in a big name or two. At one point he recalled hearing that a wealthy oilman named Sinclair (presumably Harry Sinclair of Teapot Dome notoriety) had lost $800,000 in two nights at the Golden Shores gambling club, and had later settled the debt...
Pete's" gin-drinking night life finally finished him in Philadelphia. He was dealt to the Chicago Cubs after the 1917 season, and after a brief stint as a sergeant in the A.E.F. came back to win 123 games for them in seven seasons. But Old Pete and Cub Manager Joe McCarthy were unable to see eye to eye on training regulations, so Alex the Great was sold for the waiver price ($4,000 at the time) to the Cardinals...
...keeper of a hotel's liquor cellar without snitching a single drink, he had during the last five years-under the influence and with the assistance of a woman friend-stolen and consumed some 4,337 bottles of beer, 75 bottles of whisky, 49 bottles of gin, 11 bottles of sherry...
...twelve paintings were black, white, grey and brown recollections of Manhattan gin mills and restaurants that Luks patronized shortly after the turn of the century: Luchow's, Paddy the Pig's, Mouquin's, Carey's Hole in the Wall. There was not a Man of Distinction...
...Korea had found the U.S. with its whisky barrels full. Whisky warehouses bulged with 637 million gallons, enough to supply normal demand for almost eight years. Gin, brandy and rum were in equally plentiful supply...