As the cab drew up before the address indicated, the fog lifted a little and showed him a dingy street, a
gin palace, a low French eating house, a shop for the retail of penny numbers and twopenny salads, many ragged children huddled in the doorways, and many women of many different nationalities passing out, key in hand, to have a morning glass; and the next moment the fog settled down again upon that part, as brown as umber, and cut him off from his blackguardly surroundings.
The white-hot glare of a
gin palace a good way off made the intervening piece of the street pitch black.
The craze for drink had seized him again, and he ordered me to pull up outside a
gin palace. He went in, leaving word that I should wait for him.
Yesterday Flight Lieutenant Jockey Wilson, in the first action taken by British Harrier force against the Iraqi navy, let fly with a heat-seeking Maverick rocket at a ship guarding Saddam's personal
gin palace. The patrol boat was also suspected of laying mines around Basra harbour which could have had a devastating consequence for the Royal Navy if it had not been stopped.
The Brighton-based handler clicked with
Gin Palace and Guru, part of a 13-1 three-timer for jockey Norman Williamson, then rounded off the meeting with Mixed Marriage at 25-1.
GIN PALACE looks the one to be on in a highly competitive Sunderlands Imperial Cup at Sandown Park today.
DOZENS of Betfair punters were left feeling maudlin yesterday when 4-1 favourite
Gin Palace landed Newbury's opener having been the subject of pounds 99 worth of matched bets in-running at odds of 249-1.
The Brighton-based handler clicked with
Gin Palace and Guru, part of a 13-1 three-timer for jockey Norman Williamson, and rounded off the meeting with Mixed Marriage at 25-1.
Because of its original clock-and-bell tower, the Victorian tiling, stained glass and two open fireplaces, the eight-bedroomed establishment is considered the finest surviving example of a Victorian
gin palace in Birmingham.
The owners of Manchester City and Chelsea are unlikely to be short of a
gin palace, and they face-off tomorrow in the FA Cup.
Gin Palace produced a gutsy performance to prevail by three quarters of a length after looking under pressure three out,and it was all the more creditable as it came after a 299-day absence.
Tote: 5-4 M Pipe stable, 6 Non So, 10
Gin Palace, Reviewer, 12 Hawadeth, Keltic Bard, Tikram, 14 Dancing Bay, Janidou, True Blue Victory, 16 bar.