Word: grog
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unwittingly placing Reader Johnson's salty uncle in such a difficult position, TIME apologizes to all hands, fines the news service which supplied a wrongly captioned photograph one tot of grog, herewith prints the picture (and the real Professor Morison) in full. Of TIME'S many boatmen, no small number have made it clear that Capitana is indeed a barkentine and not a ketch...
...anti-aircraft demonstration, peppering a black smoke shell cloud with hits that puffed white against it. Another day, and on the second anniversary of Their Majesties' coronation, the cruisers fired a 21-gun salute, and George issued the welcome order to "splice the main brace" (extra grog for all hands). Three hundred and fifty miles off Cape Race, 1,350 miles from Quebec, the Empress' experienced crew got a whiff of the dank, penetrating "smell of icebergs." Soon the bergs showed up, scant hundreds of yards off the Empress' bows. A cold fog settled down over...
...tots tugging their papas away from the saloon and home to their sick and starving families, Illinois passed its Dram-Shops Act. Any one injured or deprived of his means of support as a result of another person's intoxication could apply for damages not only from the grog seller, but from the grog seller's landlord. Repealed during Prohibition, Illinois' Dram-Shops Act of 1874 was revived in the Liquor Control Act of 1934, and last week it was invoked by a Chicago lady who claimed her Christmas had been spoiled by her husband...
...Royal Navy strengthened the grog* served to tars last week from "three-water-rum" to "two-water-rum"-a measure to stimulate recruiting at once contrasted with the Army's recent issuance of extra milk (TIME, March...
...Admiral's tars called him "Old Grogram," an English corruption of grosgrain current for a century before. As a temperance measure Old Grogram introduced the rule that rum must never be served straight to enlisted men but mixed with water and this mixture was soon being called "Grogram . . . Grog . . . grog...