Word: rum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This time these theatrical rum-runners are going to smuggle into our dry dramaturgic desert some strong stuff from Russia and give us for once a draught of the newer Russian vintage. Heretofore most of us have had a chance to taste Russian drama only through the beautiful but already somewhat old-fashioned and dusty museum pieces of the Moscow Art Theatre and the "twilight realism" that comes from the lower depths of Gorki's subterranean cellar or from the cherished charm of Chekhov's cherry orchard. Now at last we have a whack at a play by the most...
Twelve Miles Out. Rum-running has featured so forcibly in our national life these last few years that it is only natural it should appear upon the stage. In this play the rumrunner is made a hero, a rough diamond rattling around in the greasy pocket of fate. He wins a lovely lady and confounds the competitors for his cargo, and there is much sea salt in evidence everywhere. One scene, with the schooner swaying in the swells, is amazingly accurate. Of the accuracy of the rest one may have doubts. Romance is seldom accurate. That is why people like...
Rear Admiral Billard has written that he has changed the title of his address, though the subject matter of the talk will conform to the title announced in October. The old title "Sea-fighting Along Rum Row" has been changed at the Rear Admiral's request to "Peace and War Service--the United. States Coast Guard." "I am entirely in accord with your thought," Rear Admiral Billard has written the Union in discussing his address, "and it shall be my purpose not to touch at all upon any principles of prohibition. I shall rather try to interest the young...
...reason I am asking you to change the title of my talk is that I try to avoid having the public get the impression that the Coast Guard is concerned with rum-running operations alone...
Rear Admiral Billard's appearance today is especially significant in view of the imminent increase in activities along Rum Row, which are sure to occur with the approach of the holiday season...