Word: rum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...West India Goods store near the corner specialized in salt fish, rum, molasses, vinegar, farm produce, grain, tea and coffee, hardware, paint, lard oils and a hundred other general commodities. The local jail occupied the property now the site of the Pi Eta clubhouse near the corner of Mt. Auburn and Boylston Streets. The community was small and everybody knew everybody else and all about them...
General Lincoln C. Andrews, returning from his "125% successful" conference with Britishers on smuggling prevention, sat in the dining salon of the liner La France, ate crêpes suzettes (French pancakes) with rum sauce. Novelist Edna Ferber (see p. 31) and Lawyer Dudley Field Malone spoofed him. He replied that "everything eaten with a fork or a spoon was quite all right...
...Conn., June 7--The coaching launches for the second successive year having narrowly escaped shots from the over-vigilant coast-guard, who insist on mistaking them for rum-runners joined the crews here late last night to complete the training camp. As usual the Freshmen are established in their quarters near the boat house, while the University. Junior and Combination eights are on the hill...
...initiative must end the picture rich. The process herein is advertising; the advertised product, a sanitarium. The young man sells "bracing air at $2 a sniff," and most of the comedy occurs on a voyage of the first shipload of patients to the haven. They are set upon by rum-runners, whom the young man defeats by dressing as a girl and touching the hard captain's heart. Claire Windsor, as the young man's despairing (of poverty) wife, gives a stiff and incomplete performance. Mr. Moore is pretty funny here and there...
...during the course of the last 100 years. Fifty years ago drunkeness was not uncommon at regular class banquets, and the common meeting places of such groups as the boards of the college publications were the saloons. In 1818, 60 years farther back, the Corporation poured out hogsheads of rum to the students and townspeople free at Commencement time...