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The Rat Pack goofed around here, studio moguls kept second homes, even F. Scott Fitzgerald had a house where he hammered out screenplays between gin rickeys.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 2020

Unlike the Pug and Solly's, there's a cocktail menu, though gin rickeys, dark and stormies and Manhattans are as complex as the $12 drinks get.

From Washington Post

In a solitary corner of the vast piazza four coatless men sat idly drinking the rickeys of summer.

From V. V.'s Eyes by Harrison, Henry Sydnor

And this was still so new an aphorism to them, that they let it alone, the party breaking up over a last round of weak rickeys squeezed from the bottle.

From Rough-Hewn by Canfield, Dorothy

On table near body siphon of seltzer, bottle of imported limes, and glass for rickeys.

From The Silent Bullet by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)