Rickeys

The rickeys in the house on Monday, however, went well beyond that basic formula, with several even featuring housemade sodas. ❋ Unknown (2010)

My father built his business by bombing around the Mississippi Delta with a thermos full of gin rickeys in his car. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Before the band does its impressions of Harry James and the Mills Brothers on the drugstore record machine, Tex Beneke sings about "Moppin 'up soda pop rickeys." ❋ Unknown (2008)

A colored butler served them gin rickeys, and an hour vanished politely with the mellow shortening of their drinks and the glow of a light mid-autumn fire. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Eventually, this crazy wacko invades the celebrity-studded art world of a famous photographer (Colm Feore) suspected of torturing the hustler to death, sleeps with the photographer's sister (Ann Magnuson) and becomes the protégé of a bankruptcy lawyer (Anthony Michael Hall) who has a passion for lime rickeys. ❋ Unknown (2001)

She left stains on the table from that thermos of gin rickeys she always carries around. ❋ James Lee Burke (1988)

“She can drink gin rickeys all day and not get loaded,” Bubba said. ❋ James Lee Burke (1988)

Mississippi bride spent thirty years in apparent domestic tranquillity, until he died at sixty-five from a heart which refused longer to have its claims for purposeful living eternally answered by gin rickeys and nips of "straight Scotch." ❋ Robert S. Carroll (N/A)

At eleven A.M. all assemble at a special resort for the morning "eye-openers," between twelve and two, business stops in order to give the thirsty inhabitants time for tiffin accompanied by a half dozen whiskeys and sodas or "gin-rickeys"; after four all business ceases for tea, and, if the tea cup appears it is usually accompanied by a substantial stick in it, to rouse drooping spirits. ❋ Geneve L. A. Shaffer (N/A)

Also, it should be pointed out that we have a number of pleasant drinks which are not wine at all -- "high-balls" and "gin rickeys" and "peppered punches"; also ❋ Upton Sinclair (1923)

Also, it should be pointed out that we have a number of pleasant drinks which are not wine at all -- "high-balls" and "gin rickeys" and "peppered punches"; also vermouthe and creme de menthe and absinthe, which I believe, are green in hue, and therefore entirely safe. ❋ Unknown (1918)

On table near body siphon of seltzer, bottle of imported limes, and glass for rickeys. ❋ Unknown (1908)

Then after supper nothing would do but fizzes and rickeys. ❋ Unknown (1908)