Word: rum
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Sir Murchison had departed, within a few minutes President Roosevelt followed him, went ashore in the local steamer Tobago, drove out to Government House. There after a few swizzles of excellent Trinidad rum, they shook their heads in private over Mrs. Simpson's triumph, ate a highly seasoned luncheon, motored for 25 miles through the countryside before the Indianapolis was ready to sail...
Walking through the tropical lowlands of Nicaragua is thirsty work, and during past elections Nicaraguans have been lured to the polls by the thought of the native rum, aguardiente, distributed by candidates. It was to the immense chagrin of voters, therefore, that Provisional President Carlos Brenes Jarquin, a doctor of medicine, decreed last week that during next month's Presidential election there will be no free liquor...
...firm's present managing director is a grandson of Founder Johann Gottlieb Benjamin Siegert, a surgeon under Blücher at Waterloo. After Napoleon's fall Johann Siegert went to Angostura in Venezuela, began making his "elixir." Only known ingredients are gentian, common bitters base, and rum. Dr. Alfredo Siegert, Albert Siegert and Krast Siegert are the only three living men who know Angostura Bitters' formula. In case something should happen to all three at once, copies of the formula are cached in two bank vaults, one in Trinidad, the other in London. The Wuppermanns (A. Edward...
...gloomy sight, indeed. A Rotary lunch-con, an American Legion convention or Coney Island is enough to dismay any philosopher, and the Puritans must have looked a great deal better while taking the one worldly pleasure they were not ashamed of--to wit, getting quietly and augustly fuddled on rum...
...most readers, Bligh's story ends after he had been placed in an open boat with 18 men, "150 lb. of bread, 16 pieces of pork, each weighing 2 lb., 6 quarts of rum, 6 bottles of wine ... 28 gallons of water" and set adrift. Actually his career was only beginning when he reached the island of Timor 41 days later. A popular hero on his return to London, after "a voyage of the most extraordinary nature that ever happened in the world," he sailed again to the South Seas, fought in the battle of Camperdown, was driven...