But it was near Hartford that he and his wife, another Connecticut native, raised Adams and her sister ( now deceased ), in Warehouse Point _ " a farming town with a couple of gin mills, " as she fondly describes it.
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Sent off as the 2-5 favorite against what were supposed to be six inferior animals, he won by a mere nose after weaving in and out down the stretch as if he had just spent a long night in a Bourbon Street gin mill.
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Still, when the deer are scarce and John Q . Hunter doesn't get his big buck, the word around the gin mills and deer camps is that something has to be done about the coyotes, because the dogs are responsible whenever the woods aren't teeming with deer.
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Wherever in the world a big news story is unfolding, there is sure to be a gin mill or a rundown press hotel in which those whose job it is to make sense of events for a jaundiced public back home sit up late into the night.
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Half a mile down the street, at the Gin Mill, the play-by-play is blaring over the sound system, the Red Wings are slicing through the Philadelphia Flyers'defense on the 20 televisions situated throughout the bar, and Chris Stoddard is massaging five hockey cards _ one for each of the Red Wings'Russian players.
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Territory bands helped disseminate popular music & mdash; which included swing, jazz, sweet dance music, or any combination thereof & mdash; bringing it to remote gin mills and dance halls that were otherwise ignored by national booking agents representing genuine recording stars like Blue Devils, the Oklahoma City-based outfit that Count Basie joined in 1926.
