Word: rum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...voted last week for Government-sold liquor (see p. 15). In Windsor, Ont., the cry is for immediate legislation to put the mandate into effect-the hope being to sell the U. S. more liquor for Christmas. The Wet victory in Ontario means for the U. S.: 1) reduced rum prices in Detroit and Buffalo; 2) increased real estate activities by U. S. speculators in Ontario, with the opening of more resorts; 3) strengthening of General Lincoln C. Andrews' Prohibition enforcers along the lakes and rivers bordering on Ontario...
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Proud, always remote and exclusive, even from his own Moroccan people in the days of his "Sultanate," Abd-el-Krim is reported to hold scornfully aloof from the 172,000 inhabitants, mostly Creoles, of Réunion whose chief diversions are rum-swizzling and cinema-going...
...chronology. One may be excused for disagreeing with the biographer's view that Longfellow's appreciation of wine is an "exotic note" and an escape "from the starker Puritanism of his training," when it is remembered that belief in the legitimate use of wine--and of New England rum--seems pretty well marked in successive generations of New England Puritans. It is difficult to accept the idea that Longfellow is "the first figure in American letters to discover Europe as a rich mine." What of Irving, and was even Irving the first? Is it wise to say that the poet...
Moving behind green and yellow windowshades drawn against the incandescence of the sun, doing business, after the siesta, over a glass of rum-punch and a long pale cigar, the gentlemen of Havana, Cuba, deported themselves last week as usual. They came in at dusk from their offices and clubs, from exercise in fencing-school and walks on the Prado; they thought comfortably that it was still some time before they must start dressing for dinner, and noticed with astonishment the blackness of the air. Was there going to be a storm, they wondered...