Gin and Tonic (1930)

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   OED has 1935 for "gin and tonic."  That's not too bad, considering that's about when Prohibition ended.  I'm at Columbia University and can't check my classic reprint of the SAVOY COCKTAIL BOOK, but this cite is a year or two earlier than the SAVOY book's copyright date.


   31 August 1930, NEW YORK TIMES, pg. E3:
   Where the ice came from may remain a mystery, but it is reliably reported that bartenders in the Savoy and Carlton (London--ed.) supplied ice with whisky and soda or gin and tonic-water without complaining.

   1 April 1934, NEW YORK TIMES, pg. BR12 (Review of the book OH! DEFINITELY by Maurice Lincoln):
   There is so much comfortable drinking of side-cars, gin and tonic, whisky and soda that it is a thirst-making book.

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MISC.:

CLAMS CASINO--John Mariani cites Julius Keller's INNS AND OUTS with creating the "clams casino" in 1917.  So how come it sounded new to the NEW YORK TIMES in 1943?

OT: ONE PARKING TICKET, EIGHT YEARS AGO--The guy from the public access show e-mailed back that he doesn't remember the name of his judge, but it was a young judge.  Something to lose sleep over.