Word: rum
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From Ormond to Miami through the lagoons of the Florida coast, the houseboat Pioneer took its leisurely course during the past week. Watched for more eagerly than a rum runner, and equally unpredictable in its appearance, it kept winter visitors at their windows and public functionaries on the docks during many long hours of waiting. On board the Pioneer, guests of Mr. and Mrs. Edward B. McLean, were President and Mrs. Harding and their friends. They had no time schedule to fill, and stopped daily wherever the President felt inclined to play golf. A foursome it was- usually with...
...deep and nourished with the vintage of better years, this lucky foundling may be expected to pass rapidly from infancy to justy childhood. And who knows but that in a few years' time it may assume the same proportions as did our merchant fleet in the days of the rum-runners known to the men of the Revolution...
...fence blaze around a precious paper held by a gentleman as perfectly eccentric as any we have met with in many moons. It is he, this "unspeakable gentleman", who for a day and a night fights the world, his son, Fate, and the reader, with the meagre assistance of rum, Madeirs, and a negro servant. Oh yes. There is also in the story a charming Mademoiselle de Bianzy, who adds a certain interest; but it seems almost as if the author had placed her in the center of the maelstrom rather as an after-thought and to full certain fundamental...
...Harvard or any other college or university patted itself and said, "It is not I," when the distressing event from rum running came off at Dartmouth, the proctors at Harvard and perhaps other colleges have another guess coming...
This organization did help to kill John Barleycorn, yet there were at the same time many other and more powerful forces working for the overthrow of Demon Rum. But the Women's Christian Temperance Union flatter themselves, if they believe that alone they can subdue Lady Nicotine...