Word: rum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dirigible Los Angeles swam through minor altitudes above the mid-Atlantic Coast, returned to its Lakehurst, N. J., berth. Chattering reporters casually gleaned from chattering air-sailors that the day had been spent in taking aerial photographs of 24 rum ships. Captain George W. Steele, commanding, admitted that orders to scout and photograph had been received weeks ago from. Secretary of the Navy Wilbur. Mr. Wilbur, at Washington, protested he knew no more than the newsgatherers...
...least is A. M. Carrillo '26, who is doing yeo-man (F) duty in lobby and rotogravure display. Mr. Lyon, the dowager, makes up in elevation what he may lack in the delivery of lines. The heavy comedy falls to the lot of R. F. Burke '25, as a rum-raiding constable, and of E. S. Daniell Jr. '26, as a captain of industry. Mr. Burke is constantly on the verge of being wildly grotesque, while Mr. Daniell is as constantly on the verge of finding himself in time with the music...
...seems more probable, bootleggers are to be converted to Christianity, the movement deserves the hearty support of the entire country. Who does not pity the rum runner, tossing in his ship upon the fretful sea and longing for a Bible to solace his lonely hours? And what of the house-to-house pedlar, is he to have no bundle of holy trac's to protect his vitals from the bullets of the revenue officers? These men deserve all the pity they can get, for they are strangers in their native land, pursued relentlessly, and now and then successfully...
...possible for a man to indulge in a bit of dicing, cock-fighting or rum-swigging without having the local gendarmerie about his ears and the stink of the Watch and Ward Society's hired liars in his nose...
...Father- sell rum?" (By President Olds...