bathtub gin
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At 90 minutes, that night is brief, maybe too brief, and feels less like an immersive soak in Prohibition New York than a slug of bathtub gin.
From New York Times • Nov. 2, 2021
But if social media are any gauge , dancing at home is the coronavirus pandemic’s bathtub gin.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2020
Churchwell fills out her account with amusing period paraphernalia, such as Fitzgerald's recipe for bathtub gin, or a list of the era's new terminology: "cool", "slick", "mass media", "ritzy", "merchant bank".
From The Guardian • Jun. 29, 2013
Too many slices of cutie-pie and dance interludes as spurious as bathtub gin make this excursion back to the '20s thoroughly maudlin.
From Time Magazine Archive
Each unassuming page shows why the dizzy decade of Teapot Dome, bathtub gin, flappers, crooners and "It" girls found in him an untarnished symbol of its better self.
From Time Magazine Archive
