Word: rum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there, the sea bottom is no more interesting than an equal stretch of dry land, unless one is especially interested in seaweed or fish. The diver was on the bottom for only six or seven minutes, but he managed to find two sunken ships and several bottles of bootleg rum with the corks removed. The romance of the sea bottom is generally in inverse proportion to the extent of one's familiarity with...
...agents captured a liquor launch coming in from "Rum Row." Its skipper had an unstamped letter from a member of one of the rum-ship's crew. It read in part...
...Story. Betty Bowen Jumel Burr-famous or infamous as you choose-started life in the gutters of Providence when that town was noted mainly for its smells of whale-oil, rope, duck, slaughterhouses and rum made from molasses. Aside from these industries, it busied itself right patriotically, when the time came, with turning out muskets and cannon -"cannon to stand still for the Rhode Island defenses and wheeled cannon for the troops of Washington to lug about with them in their everlasting retreats." To be exact, Betty "arrived in America in 1775, along with the Goddess of Freedom, and with...
Smells of whale-oil, rope, duck, slaughterhouses and rum made from molasses...
...over too painlessly for that. Behind it is an occasionally effective melodramatic structure wherein a man of society, joining the Federal Prohibition forces because of the death of his sister, dons a disguise that would actually mislead the sharp-witted breed, the bootlegger, and succeeds in laying low Demon Rum. Blanche Sweet, Bessie Love and Warner Baxter stand out in this film...