Green Swizzle (1910)

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   There are 75 Google hits for "Green Swizzle."    Wodehouse mentioned the
drink.  This particular swizzle, though famous, is not in the OED.


   2 February 1910, WASHINGTON POST, pg. 3, col. 2:
_CARYPTON_
   The Green Swizzle of the West Indies; a combination of Rum, Lime Juice, &
c., that will please the palate of the most fastidious; a favorite drink for
afternoon teas and receptions.
   Per bottle, $1.50
To Kalon Wine Co.
615 14th St., N. W.


THE PATH PF THE CONQUISTADORES:
TRINIDAD AND VENEZUELAN GUIANA
by Lindon Bates, Jr.
Boston:  Houghton Mifflin Company
1912

Pg. 72:  We are introduced to the renowned "green swizzle"--a liquid whose
translucent tinge fills the bottom of the glass, the green shading gradually
into the dark red of bitters near the surface.  Gin, lime, and soda have entered
into its making, and the star-shaped swizzle-stick has been twirled within it.
 Its taste is unique; its action _suaviter in modo, fortiter in re_.
   Green swizzles have a marked effect on people's conversational ability.
Stevenson recounts stories of his start in the Indian Civil Service, under Sir
WIlliam Willcox,...