Word: rum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first important work undertaken since he came to office was improvement in the blockade against rum runners...
...result the rum row along the Atlantic Coast has been largely broken up. Illegal importations by sea have become more and more sporadic, less and less successful...
...shells have all arrived in good condition and with daily practice and examinations, the schedule is becoming fixed. The launch Pep. fresh from her little adventure with the government rum agents, has been overhauled and her leaks patched. The entire force of waiters and managers have been busy most of the day, unloading the shells and getting the equipment ready for practice. Tomorrow, the float will be ready for the morning row, and regulation work-outs of the usual length will probably be held both in the morning and in the afternoon...
...Rum-running Harvard has added to its list of sins--at least so the flaring headlines of certain extras implied last Friday. Another tempest in a teapot, the fourth or fifth within a fortnight! With all these absurdities whose only claim to screaming importance comes from their association with the name of Harvard, Cambridge is becoming as noisy as red ink extras and frantic newsboys can make...
When the May war was undertaken, it was made quite clear that if a rum launch would not stop when warned, every attempt would be made to blow it out of the water. Thus rum running became something more than risking a doubtful fine or a short imprisonment-it came to mean the risk of life...